I’m sitting in my room sipping cold apple juice that I had bought today afternoon and sipping it in a nice imported glass (one of two that I got free along with a 200g packet of coffee powder). ...

So it’s my mom 60th birthday today and in the Malayalee culture this event is called the ’sashtipurthi’. It is an auspicious day in the life of the Hindu Malayalee and usually it has...