Air Cmde Ramesh Vishwanath Phadke and Dr Pushapjeet Sidhu Phadke were married on 13th March 1970 in Ambala. My parents’ love story is like a masala Bollywood film. They met on an air base, got together despite parental pressure, and…
Midweek musings – 21st Aug Working this afternoon I am reminded of a more gentle time when I was younger and full of hope. I still have hope but am losing it fast! So much has changed… I happened to…
An old metal trunk rusted in parts. Put together in a local shop in some distant recesses of this land. Not with finesse but with purpose. Strong. So it can get the job done. To transport someone’s worldly goods across the…
I am delighted to share with you all that my line of up-cycled and painted furniture will now be available at The Purple Turtle store here in Indira Nagar, Bangalore, India. So why am I reworking old pieces – ‘My…
Connections. That is what life is about. How we connect and embrace the people in our lives… On 24th Sep 2012, I lost my paternal grandmother (Aaji) to a heart attack. It was sudden and unexpected. And heartbreaking to say…
Over the last year most posts I have written have said something along the lines of – ‘this last year has been hard, trying, blah blah’- and indeed it is true. Truer still is that the last two weeks have…
Over the last few years, I have had the pleasure, indeed honour, to talk about Sikhism at the Bangalore Walks- Living Faiths of India Tour. And no talk on Sikhism would be complete without talking about Anandpur Sahib. On 26th May…
I am the product of a mixed marriage. My father is a Maharashtrian Brahmin, and my mother, a Jat Sikh. So I have two halves of me that are always warring with each other to come out. When I am…
I was cleaning out some old papers this afternoon. And I stumbled across some sketches and doodles that I did almost 20 years ago!! One such sketch is this one of my husband, Supreet. It’s pretty good even if I…
These are pictures of my very first exhibition, held at Triveni Kala Sangam in New Delhi in 1994. I had asked for exhibition dates at their administrative office and was told that there was a two year waiting period. Daunted…
