After what to name him, sooner or later came the next inevitable question how to feed him. And answering this question requires all the patience, creativity, imagination, energy that we can muster, and then some more! Our boy had no problems eating initially… but over time he just refused to eat… anything… He’d just play […]

Here is a movie I probably wouldn’t have watched if not for Abhinav… Bal Ganesh had Ganesh’s story wonderfully animated with some snappy music. Conceptualisation is amazingly creative with the combination of ancient mythology with some modern concepts. Here are some videos on the net… Shiva’s Tandav dance… Well it did look like Abhinav’s first […]

Very unexpectedly, I ended up teaching a couple of neighborhood kids how to paint. Here are some of the ideas. Assumed that there is already an initial outline picture on the paper which is to be filled in… only the tip of the paintbrush should be dipped in paint, not the entire brush. first paint […]

This was when I was in Munich. An excerpt below. Marienplatz is the beautiful old part of the city, in the center in Munich.

As a welcome relief for all your poor readers (in case there are still any left) subject to my Dad’s ignorant perceptions, this is Abhinav managing to get a word in. You might be wondering what an easy life it is for a baby. But here you will see the how hard I have to […]

This is a very common scene… when a small baby falls down and starts crying, one way to console him (or her) is to exclaim “BAD floor!!” or “BAD table!” or whatever he bumped against, in a very angry tone. This kind of brings a pause in the crying… Then distract the child further by […]