My surname is very unobtrusive. It is present in all my official documents. It’s absent in my signature, and when I am casually giving my name in say, a form, I stop at my middle name, which exists courtesy Kerala’s matrilineal ethos. The surname’s modest behaviour is apt for the person it represents.
As I was telling D one day, books are probably the only constant in my life. The earliest ones I have is from the 80s – Amar Chitra Katha. The books I read and the person I am have a correlation, though it’s difficult to establish the direction of causation. And so, continuing from 2019, 2020, and 2021, we have this year’s list. The shortlisting gets tougher as the years go by, so I will add my other favourites on the theme in [these]! From the 56 books I read this year…
We spent the last few days of our two week Scotalnd-Ireland vacation on day trips from Dublin. Cliffs of Moher, Giant’s Causeway, Ring of Kerry, also covering Galway, Killarney and Belfast.
We spent close to a week in Ireland as part of our two week Scotland-Ireland vacation. This covers Dublin, and a visit to Cork, the Rock of Cashel, and Blarney’s Castle.
We spent a couple of days in Glasgow as part of our 2 week vacation to Scotland and Ireland. Our primary interest was the street art, which was quite fantastic.