Spring has sprung

But I can't help bemoaning the passing of winter

- SEEMA GOSWAMI

HOT CHOCOLATE EVENINGS

Winter evenings, to my mind, are best experienced with a mug of steaming hot chocolate in hand

I came back to my home in Delhi after a week-long vacation, only to find that the winter had done a disappearing act in my absence. Gone were those foggy, chilly mornings when you could see no further than your nose. Gone were the freezing nights when the only way you could get warm was by snuggling up to the heater. In its place was a mild mid-morning and evening chill that could be warded off by a mere shawl. And a sizzling afternoon sun that you could not sit out in for more than 30 minutes.

You'd think that I would be thrilled by these signs that winter had bid us goodbye and that spring had sprung. And you would be quite wrong.