The 2010s : SloWord

Punjabi in Paris – Normandy Notes 3

March 26, 2015 February 25, 2024

This is the concluding part of the Normandy sub-series within the Punjabi in Paris series. You can, of course, read Part 1 and Part 2. Part 2 has more pictures and even, hold your breath for this one, shaky videos!! We left Ste Mere Eglise after a late lunch /…Continue reading→

Punjabi in Paris – Normandy Notes 2

March 2, 2015 February 25, 2024

The Story so far This is where we left off at the end of the first part of the Normandy Notes 1: We’d missed the morning’s parachute drop re-enactment after an exciting and exhausting drive in. I was thinking wistfully about the stained glass windows of the church in Ste…Continue reading→

Peas and Paneer

February 3, 2015 June 25, 2024

So I’m back from Kolkata or Calcutta, as it used to be and will ever be for some, like me. It was a crowded trip, with remembrance services, weddings, school and college reunions interspersed with sporadic maintenance shopping. ( I’ll have to explain that some other day, that “maintenance” thing.) …Continue reading→

30 Years On the Rocks

December 4, 2014 February 25, 2024

It has been a long time. Yet, it seems just like just the other day the Slo-Man was young, slim and gormless instead of what he is today, middle-aged, fat and gormless. This is one of those momentous posts that are now given to the Slo-Man to write. For…Continue reading→

Punjabi in Paris – Normandy Notes 1

November 11, 2014 February 25, 2024

Introductory Passage Yes, I do realize that Normandy is not in Paris and so, technically and pedantically speaking, the Punjabi can’t be in Paris if he is in Normandy. You are quite right. Wrong, too. For it is entirely possible that he was in Paris when he wrote the Normandy…Continue reading→

The Typewriter Tape

September 20, 2014 February 25, 2024

Every once in a while I get deeply, madly bored and depressed. Normally this takes the form of excessive eating, extreme reading, cleaning up things or staring at the wall opposite me. I have a horror of facing the wall. I hate sitting with my back to the door which…Continue reading→

Punjabi in Paris – Groundwork and Gruntwork

July 21, 2014 February 25, 2024

<This is Part Three of the Punjabi in Paris series. Read the first two, too! Part 1 and Part 2 may be found, you guessed it right, congratulations!, by clicking on the words Part 1 and Part 2. Not these ones, the ones earlier in the sentence, the ones that…Continue reading→

Punjabi in Paris – Final Frenzy

June 30, 2014 February 25, 2024

<Read earlier post here> Somewhere in the last week, The Beloved Bangalan, realized that we hadn’t figured out the cost-benefit ratio of internal travel. Local transport within the city. Renting a car for intra-city travel made as much sense as driving your own car in New Delhi or Calcutta. I…Continue reading→

Paunchy Punjabi in Paris – Writer's Intro

June 17, 2014 February 25, 2024

Well, there you are, my dear folks. I’ve been there and “done” Paris, but did not get a t-shirt. Most of them had glittering fronts that said “I {heart symbol} Paris” in small rhinestones and, as you already know by now (or should), rhinestones are not right for my idiom….Continue reading→

Paunchy Punjabi in Paris – Writer’s Intro