...it is a depressing day...hazy, cloudy, humid and rainy and the discomfort is exacerbated after reading samankhan’s ilog. may god give her and her family the strength to bear this loss....amen.

....chowk has assumed the qualities of a joint family. we have the typical in-law types who are never happy with the ’bahu’ and the doting parents whose children can do no wrong, and the little tattles turn into major battles, the children hiding under the beds giggling while the elders fight, little later comes the sound of
laughter from the other room and all the members of the family unite in their curiousity and it is another day of loving and hating each other...