Mundane Musings

This sultry, humid, melting people’s resolve heat of April has made me yearn for the month that has passed us by. It was the last of our cool, dry weather with the evenings bringing with it pleasant winds from the Bay of Bengal (thank god for that water body) chasing away the truant temperatures and letting us still walk around with a modicum of decorum. Case in point the below picture. My filled to bursting social calendar of March was another reason why the month was memorable. Let me see, since I have had Ana Kutti a typical social month would be hanging out with close knit friends for starters and biriyani washed down with shandys or beer or plain water with the conversation flowing freely to distract from other realities (running behind the said child/children with their dinner, trying to stop them from scribbling or destroying a toy, managing their sleep times...ho hum You get the drift). It was all fun in a way only people who have friends with whom they can let the...

Rather unexpectedly I came upon this dampening observation that I couldn’t share my e-books with my friends. Of course when I had read ‘Below’ by Ryan Lockwood on Google play books and had wanted to immediately share it with my reading partner P, I was deeply disappointed to know that though I had purchased the ebook, I had no copy of it on my drive. I had promptly forgotten that deep disappointment as we continued our shared passion to read by lending each other hard copies of the books we purchased. It resurfaced recently while I was trying to watch my downloaded Amazon Prime movie on my TV. I realized that I needed a really smart TV to watch the movie with S. He hates seeing it on the mobile or lap top.  Recently, I believe Kindle has allowed its users to sharebooks with their families albeit for only 14 days, which is death for a slow reader like me. The borrower I believe would not require a Kindle or Fire Tablet, instead they could read it on the Kindle app. But of ...