Perhaps it’s the tacky Christmas ornaments  in the stores or the ridiculously awkward holiday photographs you get in the mail. Or perhaps it’s an article telling you how to avoid the holiday bloat?  It could also be the mad rush to make sure the Christmas card list is up to date and then writing and mailing them.  Or perhaps it’s the pressure of the  shopping. All of these can certainly be a warning that Christmas is coming – brace yourself!! I’m wondering when we started to see Christmas as a time that we almost dread? When did we start to…

  I couldn’t resist clicking a picture of these lovely children playing around Carter Road, Mumbai, early one morning. Do you see what I see? Then yesterday, I watched another little girl, hardly five, the daughter of laborers working on the road outside our house. She was in charge of her baby brother/sister who she invented little games to amuse her sibling. No toys, just an old towel! Later, last evening, I heard loud music, and an even louder Emcee in the skyscraper at the back of our building. It was a Christmas party for the children of the building.…