The water of life
It was during a get-together with the medical fraternity that an interesting fact about the relationship of a healthy heart with moderate whisky drinking was revealed to me. One of the doctors there asked to be served a whisky that was at least 12 YO… and I was curious. ‘Any reason for this specific instruction,...
I love being Sophie!
‘I’m Sophie,’ she said, ‘and I have the memory of an elephant.’ But then she wasn’t Sophie. She wasn’t Kara either, nor Bhakti, nor Neha, nor any of the tens of other names she was fond of linking with herself. That day, however, she was Sophie. So I will call her Sophie. Barring forgetting her...
