About

This site is a growing collection of memories dating back to 2003.  Its author (parmanu[at]gmail[dot]com) is an Indian living in Germany.

The following sample conveys an essence of the posts you will find here.

Living in Germany

A Language Affair
The bus ride to work
Santa tales

Visits to India

Responding to Poverty
Two malls and a street

Train journeys

The girl from Finland
Super 8
Trains
A conversation with Kavita Ramdas

Visting places

The puppet collector’s wife
The lure of Hampi
A weekend in Paris

Books and movies

Reality in movies
Parineeta
Potter Patter
Two lives
The Economist Book of Obituaries

Rare experiments with fiction

Ten
The Inflexion point

Living alone

Week and Weekend
A new life, without wife

Art and photography

Edward Hopper and the eternal moment
The kingdom of Nek Chand
Winter landscapes