Ariel on lockdown

“Come, Ariel. Time for your walk.” Startled, I raised my head and saw a face, mouth and nose hidden behind a white cloth, a pair of spectacles guarding the eyes that bore into me. Struck dumb with fear, tail tucked between my hind legs I was about to bolt when my keen sense of smell …

Ariel plays a prank

It has been a long time since I wrote and published. There was nothing to write about. There is no pleasure in writing about routine, which my life has been these last few months. Writing about routine is dull and pleases neither the author nor the reader. Too boring to write about the days the …

Living at the farm

Few are as lucky as I am. In addition to my home in Kaushambi, Delhi NCR I have a home in Dehradun and another at the family farm among Shivalik hills. I keep shuttling between the three. They don’t call me a nomad for nothing.  Not that I mind, for I love the car rides …

Ariel and House Renovation

Humans are strange creatures. Take my parents for example. Actually, they are my grand-parents, but failing to get an Australian visa and join my mom Pramiti, I came back to India from Singapore and, because I needed someone to look after me, adopted her parents as mine. They were already dog-trained during their eight-month sojourn …

Happy holi

All was quiet when I woke up this morning. I returned from my constitutional, finished my meal and dozed off under the dining table, as I do every day. Within what seemed to me a few seconds I jumped up with a start. The high decibel noise that nearly shattered my eardrums was coming from …

Ariel’s Singapore misadventure

Those who have been following my chronicles would know that I was to fly to Singapore, on way to Melbourne, on 19th December last year. Well I did and, upon landing, was immediately escorted to my private suite where I was booked to stay. I was served standard meals of patented food brands. I religiously …

Ariel meets Leo

Cousin Leo came to visit me on Sunday. This is our first meeting and, most likely the last. I am flying out to Australia on the 19th and probably will not return. Ours was a tumultuous meeting. Leo sniffed me and I sniffed right back. Leo broke the ice a minute or two later. He …

‘Those with pets live longer’

If the above is true, I should live much longer than most of my breed. Because I do not have one pet, I have four. Those who have been following me on WordPress would know how I acquired my first one even before I was one month old. Pramiti and I lived in a flat …

Ariel’s musings

Some time ago I had mentioned that last month a team of thugs had entered our house in Bangalore, packed all that belonged to us, loaded them in a truck and escaped. Well, about two weeks ago some people came to Kaushambi in another truck and returned the very same goods to us. I recognised …

Ariel’s days out

  I had given up all hopes of seeing again my beautiful red car, which had gone missing twelve days ago in Bangalore. Imagine my surprise when it made a miraculous appearance in Kaushambi the day we arrived. We drove it to the family farm a day later. I love to stick my head out …