It's my son Ronnie who is the actual bike freak. Here he is meditating (sort of) in front of the bike I bought him from my wife's savings. He has quite expensive tastes as you can see, besides bikes he loves Bollywood films, MTV reality shows, music, muzak, mujic (rap, weird sounding screeches he calls music, Michael Jackson), and still watches cartoon television. He is doing engineering in computer science and like all youngsters has a cavalier **attitude** towards life and the situations around him.

Me on a Pulsar, 200 cc.

It has been a life-long ambition to ride a bike. At least, I have done it vicariously on my friend's 200 cc Pulsar.

Caferati Bombay May 2008

Caferati Bombay May 2008
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Suniti caught me at the May 2008 readmeet of Caferati.

Caferati Bombay May 2008

Caferati Bombay May 2008
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Me reading a travel piece I wrote on my recent visit to Kerala at Caferati's May 2008 read meet.

From right: My wife Mercy (laughing with her mouth closed), son Ronnie and Mercy's sister Molly outside Molly's beautiful home in Keezhvaipur in Kerala. No, Ronnie doesn't fly Emirates, though he will fly if Emirates gives him free tickets for advertising their airline.

These are my schoolmates from left: Chandran, Ajit and Sarasa. We met at Grand Central in Chembur because our school Adarsha Vidyalaya was situated in Chembur.