“I want some Bhaatkhor”, my 2.5 year old chirps. I think I must have misheard, so I ask her if she wants some Bhaat (rice), and she replies “No, Bhaatkhor!”. I’m perplexed, I don’t understand what she is trying to ask. My mind immediately connects it to a rhyming word in Hindi, which I’m sure […]

A letter to my 2.5 year old: Dear M, I had just sat down to my dinner of rawa dosa, prepared by your father, when you came and gleefully announced that you have upended the salt canister into the laundry basket. I did not believe you at first because after your last salt episode (where […]