Do you know - I really don't think I'm much good at this blogging malarkey. I take comfort from the person (Sidin Vadakut?) who said that no one reads blogs any more but am not at all sure that's true. Trouble is, I keep forgetting that there's this little space in internet-land waiting to be filled in by me, never having got into the whole confessional diary-writing thing that my generation of schoolgirls was so heavily into. Even back then, it sounded like avoidable trouble to me -... Read more...

Here's a link to the Hay festival website that shows me signing books ...https://www.hayfestival.com/kerala/en-index.aspx?skinid=20... Read more...

Greetings from my mum's house in Trivandrum!I love coming here but the scene usually revolves around family visits, temples, appam-shtoo and occasionally catching up with a Malayalam movie or three. This visit has so far been ... well, different, thanks to the Hay festival which had me tip-toeing into the house past midnight three nights running: something I haven't done since leaving my parents' house as a teenager. I had three stonking events at the festival with packed... Read more...

Goodness me, it's been so busy, I forgot I had a blog! So sorry, if anyone's been looking for me, but I've had to shuttle up and down to England a couple of times and have, of course, been helping with our residential unit for people with disabilities as well. Not to mention trying to finish the third 'Secrets' book!Well, now I'm off to take part in the Hay festival at Trivandrum. So, when I get a quiet moment, I will write from there, I promise.For now, alvid... Read more...

The launch was fabulous, with a turn-out that astonished me, given the state of Delhi’s dug-up roads.  Big thanks to all of you who braved the traffic jams to be there! I was sure I’d never top the crowd we had at the Habitat Centre for the launch of ‘Secrets & Lies’ last year, convinced that was entirely due to the charismatic Mr. Tharoor who was chief guest. But, seeing how full the Ashoka’s banquet hall was this Friday night, I’m daring to hope that some people (a... Read more...

  Hello again, and apologies for the long silence. Thrilled to be a blogger now, getting to it decades after everyone else did! Anyone who knows me knows what a technophobe I am so this is a major achievement, MUCH more so than writing books.  Gearing up for the launch of ‘Secrets & Sins’ tomorrow. The publishers are going stir crazy with a Bollywood theme, using the slim excuse of the book’s hero being a Bollywood superstar. From what I can s... Read more...