abu & rabad

Earlier Meetu wrote about how Abu wanted to give minus points to the terrorists. We’ve had a few sporadic conversations about the terrorists in the following few days. Often, I read newspapers at the breakfast table. And sometimes Abu and Rabad want to know what I am reading, and I try to tell them the […Read More…]

i wake up to the news of my city, mumbai, under attack. the discussion between navin & me and the terrified look on my face while reading the newspaper draws abu to the newspaper too. i try to hide the horrid pictures from him while typing out text messages to friends and family. abu – […Read More…]

in our recent trip to Sikkim, both abu and rabad took their turns to fall ill. in fact, abu was on his 3rd day of anti-biotics when we left. now, usually, we don’t depend on bottled water. we believe that little illnesses are good for the immune system in the long run. but, since this […Read More…]

Yesterday in the afternoon, I was walking Rabad to the daycare. It was sunny and hot. “Pappa, is winter over?” “No baby. It is still winter, but for some reason it is hot today.” “Oh. I want winter back. I like the cold” Later, in the evening, unexpectedly it rained. The kids were playing downstairs, […Read More…]

every once in a while, rabad comes up to me, extremely dissatisfied with life, “why didn’t you give me two names, why do i have only one?” me: of course, you have two…the other one is rabad, see… rabad (in full form – curled brows, the hint of a tear in left eye, and all): […Read More…]

“I want water” It was 10pm. Rabad should have been asleep about an hour ago, but wasn’t. So she was slightly cranky too. But every once in a while, we decide that spoonfeeding is not on. “Go get it yourself from the fridge.” “But it dark there.” After about 5 minutes of fruitlessly trying to […Read More…]

Yesterday, I took Abu to the grocery. He loves going to the grocery because he gets to sit in the grocery cart while I push him around the store. We were doing this and and we were having some random conversation about buying Pepsi and Gatorade and brands of cereal, in general some nice father-son […Read More…]

Abu is a big fan of stories and story books. Harry Potter (he knows the names of all 7 books), Dinosaurs (he can recognize more dinosaurs from their photos than I can), Indian Mythology (Ram, Sita, Krishna, and now the dash-avatar). In fact, as part of bedtime reading over the last year or so, meetu […Read More…]

Rabad loves drawing and coloring. She goes to a drawing class three times a week, where they teach her how to copy drawings made by her teacher and then color them with crayons. Even otherwise, she spends a lot of time drawing or coloring – with crayons, sketch pens, or water colors. She can literally […Read More…]

our cousin spent the day with us yesterday. she had an interesting conversation with abu-rabad, which i asked her to jot down for your reading pleasure. over to babli, abu-rabad’s 24 year old, buaji (paternal aunt)… * * * Abu was busy writing a story and Rabad was completing her drawing. Suddenly Rabad asked me, […Read More…]