Spotlight on Gurrinder [Indi] Khanna
Q: Which years were you in BCS and what is the first thing that comes to mind?INDI: 1959 to 69 Rivaz House. Loved it and have always thanked my parents for taking the step to put me in a boarding even though our home was in Simla.Q: Your first day at BCS?INDI : Howled my […]
The Hump on the Road – by Indi Khanna
I’m terrible with dates. While I need to shovel loads of fish down my gullet to simply remember even my date of birth date, the one date which is firmly etched in my memory is the 1st of January 1978. I was a young pudian (green horn) SD on Panniar Estate in the High Ranges […]
The Missing Sibling & The Saga Of Kartoo – two writings by Gurrinder [Indi] Khanna
The Missing Sibling While born in Simla, the entire formative years of our son Madhav till he went off to a boarding school, were on an estate in Upper Assam. The upshot was that Madhav naturally grew up with and adopted the ‘garden Hindi’ as his mother tongue. A language which I describe as the […]
Thank you – from Mr. Ronald Goss
Some random thoughts – Indi Khanna
On the cusp of adding another year in my life I find myself, uncharacteristically, sitting idle at my clean-as-a-whistle office table. With little else to do, one’s mind does tend to wander. So today I very consciously gave it a free rein, allowing it to meander along down my 67 years, picking up little bits […]
“Chicken on the Menu” and “Angle to Angling” – by Indi [Gurrinder] Khanna
Two articles by Gurrinder [Indi] Khanna – enjoy! Chicken on the Menu In 1975 at a young 22 almost straight out of University and a Masters in English, I found myself up on Panniar Estate (High Ranges) having been despatched there by the Malayalam Plantations Agents in Cochin. Born and with my entire formative years […]