She’s 16 today and maybe in a way I’ve started writing this because I know that soon, I’ll have to let her go her own way. My brilliant Mensan daughter so full of life and love and laughter. They say if you truly love someone, you’ll let them go. I hope I can because I truly do.

In between there were great schooldays, a wonderful university life where I sailed through my graduation and post-graduation with nary a care in the world. There was so much travelling – something I still love! There were twelve wonderful years in advertising. And there were my friends – they are all over the world today but that’s where the Internet has proved to be such a boon. Because they’re just a click away. Toronto, Auckland, New York, Chicago, London, neighbouring Bombay – in the virtual world, the miles just melt away.

Come to think of it – that’s me. Totally disciplined when it comes to work and I expect the same from anyone who works with me too. And yet when it comes to the world within me, the musings take on a life of their own. Like my reading. I sometimes read three books at a time – is it because I’m a Gemini? Well, that’s one explanation!

The thing is, I like it. There’s a wonderful balance I feel – the way things are. The order balanced by the vagaries. The discipline balanced by the disorder. Well, I would like this site to be about the moments that have affected me deeply. Some of them are personal, some professional and some, well, a kind of an in-between.  They’ve all gone into the making of me as a person.