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Wednesday, July 8, 2015 4:26:25 PM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled Mud and Ash:
Amit said, "‘These grass blades were his eyelashes,’ I’d say,Pointing to the soil.‘These big, bright lilies, probably ‘His teeth, broad, blinding.‘He was impulsive, could be sharp,’I’d say. ‘See those brambles?‘Probably his tongue.’She’d..." more
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 11:41:54 PM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled summer:
Amit said, "this tamping down of feelingsthis quietening of the heartthis shushing of the murmursthis worrying of wrinkleson the silk that rests inside this buttoning down of greedthis tempering of ragethe quiet upheavals that make up the unseen..." more
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 8:12:34 PM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled Breathless in Fort Kochi:
Amit said, "For about six years after we got married, Amit and I only took small holidays to Goa and to Junagadh. One year, we decided to shoot for Kerala, where my family comes from. In 2010, in rain-soaked, post-tourist-season Kochi, the streets..." more
Friday, August 15, 2014 12:03:09 AM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled Is that *really* the time?:
Amit said, "I grew up in a family where life was always just a little bit interesting – and often not in a good way. Both my parents were career people and our home was always full of people walking in and out. I had high-strung aunts, so..." more
Saturday, August 2, 2014 10:08:33 PM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled When you’re away:
Amit said, "Posted rather tentatively, a poetry :) My effort this year is to stop being self-conscious as a writer. (I don't know precisely what that means, but I'll be damned if I let that stop me from posting it!) And so, an attempt at poems and their..." more
Friday, July 4, 2014 2:08:28 AM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled An article on Chembur for Timeout, Mumbai...:
Amit said, "...From many moons ago, be warned! This article appeared in a Timeout column (June 2011) on why you love a particular suburb. Mine was called 'I love Chembur'. The format has a short description of the suburb + some stuff it's famous for. Hence the..." more
Sunday, April 20, 2014 9:51:10 AM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled In which the Springs are Cleaned!:
Amit said, "Much to my regret, I have just one child. I totally adore her, but in an ideal world, I’d have had two kids. And we’d live in a house by the sea, with a dog, and I’d be writing picture books and teaching college kids for a living...." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:20:25 PM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled Let's ban longing:
Amit said, "A post after so long, and sadly, tis a poetry :) Something I wrote a couple of months back, and didn't immediately set on fire because I sort of liked it... and stewed over and fretted over and hemmed and hawed and backfooted over it. I like it..." more
Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:20:25 PM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled Yours, Mine and Theirs:
Amit said, "Amit and I have very distinct ideas about books and their ownership. I think books must be allowed to roam free. They must be given to friends, so that they can freely mess with other people's minds. I love stumbling into my books in friends’..." more
Friday, September 6, 2013 2:53:37 AM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled Losing my tongue:
Amit said, "In Hindi films from the ‘70s till the late ‘80s, the new-bahu-of-the-house made it her job to dismiss traditions. She refused to breastfeed her children for ‘the sake of her figure’ (SHUDDER!); went to parties; taught her kids the twist and..." more
Friday, September 6, 2013 2:53:37 AM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled Sssslip into ssssilent sssslumber...:
Amit said, "The half-woman-half-beast, scary and yet pathetic somehow, hesitated at the door of a bus. Suddenly, there was the deafening thunder of stampeding cattle. The sun set in a black-and-white sky, and two large, ghostly eyes stared down; bearded goons..." more
Friday, September 6, 2013 2:53:37 AM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled Of history, roads, mother and coffee:
Amit said, "Taking my mum on an outing is not an easy task. She has a dodgy knee, and in the interests of not getting in the way of frolicking youngsters like Amit and me (both over-40, fairly unfit, and not given to frolics), she refuses to join us. The dogged..." more
Friday, December 28, 2012 6:21:22 AM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled A day in the life of...:
Amit said, "When the British Council had a proper library in Bombay, with a proper (and delightful) children's room, we made a trip once a month. And joyously let N play with the various (germ-filled, no doubt) soft toys and big books there. There was this one..." more
Friday, November 30, 2012 7:46:59 PM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled Of Readers and their Rights:
Amit said, "For those of us who work from home, Facebook is the sort of space that gives us the feeling that we don’t. It’s like the office canteen: we go there to see who is ‘wearing’ what today; we smile at how pretentious our colleagues are; and we..." more
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 12:15:22 AM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled Of Readers and their Rights:
Amit said, "For those of us who work from home, Facebook is the sort of space that gives us the feeling that we don’t. It’s like the office canteen: we go there to see who is ‘wearing’ what today; we smile at how pretentious our colleagues are; and we..." more
Thursday, April 26, 2012 12:58:36 AM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled How corporate practices can shape nations:
Amit said, "I’ve noticed that historical books written about India during the seventeenth and the twentieth centuries fall, perforce, into one of two categories: either they are mind-bendingly dull text books or they are lyrical post-modern takes on how..." more
Sunday, February 26, 2012 8:20:40 AM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled Mommy Maddest:
Amit said, "To people who don’t have kids, all parents appear the same — a large, quivering mass of dementia. Loopy adults who hover around small human beings, cooing, muttering, and fussing. I mean, who in their right minds and over the age of 25 would..." more
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 10:20:20 PM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled New books mean new joys :):
Amit said, "and bringing joy into my life on an otherwise dull day was this new book, drawn by the wonderfully talented shilpa ranade :)it was written three years back and has been two years in the making, but what a louliness!more strength to pratham, the guys..." more
Monday, January 23, 2012 12:07:09 PM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled Mixed nuts!:
Amit said, "as a boyfriend-starved college student, I knew one thing for a fact: the dreary Sahara desert of my lovelife was made more wretched by the fact that I had grown up going to an all-girls’ school. Boys were exotic creatures for us. We only met..." more
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 12:21:40 AM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled Magic by Any Other Name:
Amit said, "December. That time of the year when my little daughter’s sense of magic fights with her awareness of the real world – and loses. She comes from two generations of fairly laidback, irreligious, non-ritual-practicing people on both sides of the..." more
Friday, October 21, 2011 1:30:19 AM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled What Ramesh found...:
Amit said, "For years now, Ramesh has had my loyal custom. Back in the '80s, when I first spotted him outside Ambedkar Udyan, I was a humongously fat teenager, and he was a really thin young man in his 20s. He had strangely 'new' looking books. Unlike most..." more
Sunday, October 2, 2011 5:48:11 AM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled Forgiving mom and dad:
Amit said, "As a parent, there’s just one thing I’m totally certain of: no matter what you do, you’re wrong. You’re either too strict, or too lenient, or too nice or too nasty, too loving or too emotionally reserved.There’s more good news: you’ll..." more
Monday, September 26, 2011 11:16:31 PM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled Interviewed by the Timeout!:
Amit said, "Found in TranslationWhat kind of stories do children find appealing? Strong narratives, arresting visuals and irreverent ideas are crucial, according to children’s writer Anita Vachharajani. Gijubhai Badheka’s Gujarati folk tales not only meet..." more
Sunday, September 11, 2011 11:43:41 PM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled It takes a village... even to have fun!:
Amit said, "Was the world a better place when I was growing up? Life was harder, for sure. Mom was an office-goer, grandma was strict, teachers were sticklers, and worst of all, TV had one black-and-white channel where the highlight was aapan yanna pahilat kaa..." more
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 9:54:23 PM
Amit Vachharajani wrote a blog post titled downstairs, a world away:
Amit said, "to that neighbour i like,to him, to his old-fashioned clothes,to his young man's bodytrapping an old man's mind,to him, i want to say,my parents moved away from who you are nowabout five decades ago.in a clot of amber you exist between..." more