With all the free time I have now (thanks to Cooper) I thought of writing something here. This is Cooper, a friend’s dog, and whenever I go home to Nagercoil, we generally hang out together, talking and taking Cooper for long walks in the colony. This time was no different, we were on our walk …
The recent death of the four nuns belonging to the Kolkata-based Missionaries of Charity in Yemen, is hard to take in. They became nuns for a reason, they wanted to dedicate their lives to serving God by caring for the infirm and weak in society. They weren’t a threat to anybody, they were just caring …
So where do I start…. January was fun, been so buried under books, didn’t really find time to jot down stuff here. January started off on a fun note; after a midnight mass under flashing lights that were really giving me a headache, yeah, my church in the village is really big on tacky lighting… …
So December has been really hectic so far, well the actual craziness started with my sister’s birthday on November 30th, when the city (Madras) started experiencing torrential rains. We were cooped up inside enjoying the downpour (little did we know that more was in store), taking pictures and getting drenched in the terrace and making …
We reached Paris around 8 pm, it was quite cold and we went shivering to an Indian restaurant nearby. A few of us didn’t want Indian food so we went to a pizzeria Had some wine (Chianti) and pizza. This is the four seasons pizza that I ate. It was nice sitting here with the …
So after a nice breakfast in Burgos we started on our way to Lourdes. Fields of gold in France Driving through France was fun, the scenery is amazing like this field of bundled up hay. Rugged mountains The castle of Lourdes in the center. Our quaint room in Lourdes As soon as we reached the …
The past few months have been terribly crazy, so many things have been happening (mostly in my head), that there aren’t enough words to make sense of it all. It all felt like the ground beneath me was cracking open, the familiar ground that I knew growing up was now shifting and rearranging itself. The …
The next day after an early breakfast we set out to visit Avila, which is about an hour’s drive from Madrid. A video of the landscape in Spain… Here, we’ve just reached Avila… these Walls of Avila were completed between the 11th and 14th centuries and they are the city’s defining image. We had a …
Our flight from Chennai was at 4am, so after a small midnight prayer in church, after all the airport drama and the waiting, we finally settled into our seats for the four hour flight to Qatar. I was instantly asleep, and in Qatar after going through a security check again, we boarded the transit flight …
Just got back from a madcap road trip across five countries in Europe and I am still reeling from the effects of the past two weeks. There were about seventy of us on this pilgrimage trip (thirty from my parish) and I was wondering how it would be… We landed in Madrid and traversed through …