That Loony Lizard
I am in Delhi for Diwali and to say bye-bye to IIT Campus, the leafy academic campus once at the edges of 'New Delhi' now swallowed by the the behemoth that is the National Capital Region of Delhi today. It is the residential campus where my parents have lived for over three decades, travelling and working all over, kids in tow, but always coming back to the campus we knew as home. We love the place to bits along with the dogs, cats, mice, ants, peacocks, owls, cockroaches, spiders, wasps, mosquitoes, lizards and the occasional snake that have also made the place their home. As my sister says its a bit like being in the Australian Outback, once you block out the noise of the whizzing Delhi Airport-bound planes that is. So I'm no stranger to the creatures that appear out of nowhere and disappear as suddenly. Like the mouse that found a friend's rucksack so tasty that it chewed the plastic strap right through the night. O...