A Sleepless Night with a Firefly, and Farewell to Savanaram

Last night was like trying to sleep on a bed of nails – strange as I went straight off the night before. My only diversion during the small hours was a super bright firefly that had followed me into the room and stood guard by the bedpost twinkling at me all...

Sunshine But No Elephants Yet

Well I’ve made it – with a few misadventures on the way – all of which have righted themselves (forgetting my adaptor – cause of major anxiety as its loss would put the blocks on my working – but they’ve found me one), forgetting my iphone lead (turns out it was in my...

Elephants and Contraceptives

I’ve just used something that actually happened to me in my novel Kurinji Flowers. About five years ago (2007),   I went to India for the first time and was driven at night from the airport at Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu to my destination, a yoga retreat near...