'Eavesdropping over conversations, I can state with some authority that the transition from a winter body to a summer one is proving traumatic for most, the winter wardrobe chastened by the summer one.'

'Waging battle over a jar of marmalade seemed petty beyond belief so I simply lost my craving for the preserve,' Kishore Singh writes

Kishore Singh salutes Akbar Padamsee, the legendary painter who passed into the ages last fortnight.

'When I told my wife I was going to ask our daughter-in-law if she was planning on hitting the streets, my wife took me aside and whispered fiercely in my ear, "Don't let her learn the language of dissent because it'll come back to bite us",' says Kishore Singh.

'Two hours to reach somebody's home seems a bit much for food you could just as easily order at home. Without having to talk to strangers. Or pretend to be having a good time. Or dreading a hangover,' sighs Kishore Singh.

Urban lives are the opposite of rural ones, especially when it comes to evenings out, says Kishore Singh.

'A trip to the banks of the Hooghly without which there wouldn't be a Calcutta/Kolkata is one for the bucket list,' says Kishore Singh.

There are parts of India that stoutly hold their own against cultural hegemony, but it is anyone's guess how long that will last, says Kishore Singh.

'A hangover of the Raj, there's no one quite like the desi butler who knows the order in which a meal must be served, and will not be distracted from his watch by modern memsahibs and their slightly unusual ways or requests,' says Kishore Singh.

Nobody likes misery for company, especially on a holiday, says Kishore Singh.

Weddings make you wish you had a hundred hands instead of a brain that feels like a sponge attached to 10 different heads being pulled in different directions, says Kishore Singh.

My son and his wife are now spending a holiday in pursuit of chicken, says Kishore Singh.

'As the sun rises, so does my acquaintance with the neighbourhood's avifauna,' says Kishore Singh.

'Rashtrapati Bhavan may have hygiene standards that are a benchmark for the rest of the hoi polloi, but you had to feel sorry for the august assembly of guests who braved the temperature for a seat at the new Cabinet's swearing in,' says Kishore Singh.

The flight seemed crammed with groups of friends from Delhi and Mumbai. They spoke in the accented English of the privileged, threw abuse about freely, and talked loudly throughout the one-and-a-half-hour flight. While the excited group kept up their chatter, another quieter group went about its business with just as much efficiency, says Kishore Singh.

'Khan Market is useful if not central to our existence,' says Kishore Singh.

'And I'm back at work, where it's quieter than home is likely to be for a while', says Kishore Singh.

It's easier to see a heart surgeon than a designer whose appearances on social pages far outnumber their presence before clients, notes Kishore Singh.

'Till the foreseeable future, our evenings are chock-a-block with nuptial festivities and merrymaking,' sighs Kishore Singh.

Last year, his family forced Kishore Singh not to write anything about them...