2 Bandra Girls Buy a Farm, Part 8 -The Bull Run and Running with the Bulls
A new day, a new (mis) adventure! It sounds like a cliché when I say there is never a dull day at the Farm. From the day we set eyes …
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2 Bandra Girls Buy a Farm, Part 7 – From the Tamarind Tree to the Scraggly Bush
With apologies to Graham Greene, our farm story has no beginning or end: When I tell you of our adventures, I arbitrarily choose that moment of experience from which to …
2 Bandra Girls Buy a Farm, Part 6 – A Year On…
As we hurtle towards our first anniversary as farmers, it’s time to look back at the rollercoaster year it has been. We’ve had our struggles, triumphs, frustrations, and successes, but …
2 Bandra Girls Buy a Farm, Part 5 – A Popti Party
Readers of my farm posts may have wondered about my long hiatus. No, we haven’t abandoned the farm. It continues to flourish, thank God. And we continue with our travails, …
2 Bandra Girls Buy a Farm, Part 2 – Double Trouble
After an insane 4 hour wait at the Tala registration office, where we probably came out on top because we held our patience, we were finally proud owners of 6 …
Lockdown Diary Part 9 – Admit it, We Are in Hell
In April 2020 when I started my Lockdown Diary, little did I imagine that May 2021 would still find us locked up. Well, not in as hard and harsh a …
Lockdown Diary Part 8 – Green Calm Below. Blue Quietness Above.
We are now in our eighth month of Lockdown. While many things have been allowed to reopen, life is far, far from normal. Schools, colleges, places of worship, swimming pools, …
Lockdown Diary Part 7 – Baby Steps – Our First Restaurant Visit
It’s been a long, strange and bizarre seven months. First, there was fear and paranoia. Then acceptance, adjustment and making the best of the situation i.e. learning how to manage …
Lockdown Diary Part 6 – 1G bear the brunt of the Covid-19 Lockdown
My husband’s cousins WhatsApp group is called ‘Stonethrowers 2G’. And before the ED and the IT departments swarm down like a plague of locusts, let me quickly say, this has …
Lockdown Diary Part 5 – All hail the BMC!
To say the last few months have been surreal would be a serious understatement. It’s almost like we all shut our eyes one day and opened them in an unknown …