I think I mention at least once in a few posts, that I meet very interesting people over the Net. Well, I met somone who says he “collects interesting people”. and I exchanged a few emails, the start of which was enabled by his prodigious memory; and then he told me about an email list--silk-- that he had started, way back in 1997, which is still going strong now, with 150-odd ( very odd, in some cases, apparently) members all over the world.

Up to the time my daughter left home at the age of 17, I was generally known in many circles as “Anjana’s mom”….after she left and we finished our travels to various places and came back to Bangalore to roost, I started developing my own identity, independent of the “corporate spouse” identity, and also the “Munni ki Maa” identity…I have made friends of my daughter’s age, or even less, to complement my friends who are 20 or 30 or in one instance 40 years older than me.

I realize that people post on LJ for widely varying reasons. says he got on to LJ to post comments on other people's blogs; says it is not his primary writing, but he uses it for stuff that won't fit in elsewhere. Several people use it to post pictures.

Will ANY of the Deccan Herald’s links work properly? Just tried the link on 's LJ to see the write up about him...doesn't work.

I have thought long and hard about this problem of lack of lane discipline.The reasons for this are: