J: Kamal struck a match and watched the flame skip into existence.  The house looked alien to her now. All the décor that she had so carefully picked up, walking through the folk art expos, the trade fairs. The papier mache Kathakali masks on the wall, the terracotta Bankura horses, the large Warli painting on…

I is for Insouciance This feels like a shade of April 1st.  A dollop of apathy with a splash of unconcern, and a topping of carelessness.  All this is baked in a soft pastry of nonchalance. It makes for a surprisingly interesting dish even though the feeling that insouciance awakens is that of an indifferent…

This is cliché, I know, but H is for Happiness Sometime back, I came across Abraham Lincoln’s quote: “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” And it got me thinking; Is happiness a state of mind or is it achieved through perseverance? Is it inherent to a person or…

G is for Goose-bumpy After yesterday’s post about Fury, I had started writing about another emotion with a story I desperately wanted to share about my friendly neighborhood grouch. Then this afternoon I came across this almost made up sounding word. So grouch has been saved for another day. This hyphenated (or not) word emphasizes…