Confessions of a Merry Monk

It wasn’t until Maya shoved me outside my son’s school and announced to me that she and Maanav were getting married that I understood why Maanav had been in such …

To My Dear Merry Family, As you may already know, after fourteen years of separation, I have recently reconnected with my younger son Veer. We have been learning much about …

Less than two hours after I’d pressed publish on the last chapter, I received a call from my sister-in-law Mina and an email from my brother Mishal with the subject …

2011 “She’s inhumane. How can a mother leave her children?” As I hear the words, I know this is it. This is the moment. All eyes are on me now. …

This is one of the more difficult posts to write. Because this is where I have to face just how much I messed up. My life at this point took …

Chalkhill Estate. It was one of those ‘phantom’ council estates I’d heard about but never seen. It was always in the news for robberies, violent gang crime and drug scandals. …

Before the incident with Maya at Jai’s school, I saw the children regularly, a few times a week and on the weekends. After the humiliation I faced at the school …

Before we continue, I wanted to pause here and say a couple of things: I am loathe to write negative things about people. This series is not written with the …

It’s funny what the mind does when it’s trying to avoid pain and trauma. And when I say funny, I mean funny-funny, not funny-ha-ha.   Today, I meditated, bathed, washed …

December 2001 We’re in India with my in-laws and a big group of relatives and friends. We’ve come to visit some Jain temples and see the facilities funded by the …

I’m often asked what happened in my marriage, why it ended. The truth is, there is no single answer, no one isolated incident, as I’m sure is the case for …

Sometime after that awful evening, Maanav was away in Germany on a business trip. I was at home with the new baby when the phone rang. It was the fraud …