I realise its been over a year since I posted. I can cite many a reason - motherhood, work etc. But I suppose it mostly comes down to essential laziness/ inertia. Let me begin at once chronicling a few moments of my journey with my toddler so far. This video has me in splits EVERY TIME. No - people with no kids HAVE NO IDEA! That is what I felt when last Sunday I attended a dear friend’s daughter’s first birthday. The venue was a nice restaurant with a play area set up outside. This area was a nice child-proofed space festooned with bright paper lanterns and buntings. The kids made a bee line for the slide and see-saw and little tricycles arrayed there. It was all very nice but for the heat. The harsh Delhi heat that beat down mercilessly on a humid August noon. So there we were - a bunch of hapless parents watching over our brood in the mid-day sun while we watched our friends - the other kind - the kind without children, through the ta...
Tales from an urban woman becoming a first time parent