Category: – Cities and places

Just back from a weekend of work in Bangalore. Or is it Bengaluru now? Not much has changed since the time I left Bangalore to return to where the heart is. Two and a half years. True, Bangalore has become a one-way city – if you miss a turn somewhere, chances are you need to… Continue reading Bangalore weekend

Okay, so I am linking again. So? As Bombay gets hot and hotter, here is a post on cool, green Matheran at Itchy Feet. Different viewpoint, same view…

When you have nothing to say, link it. Even better, cross-post. (In less polite circles, also known as ctrlC-ctrlV, but I did say ‘Windows by Microsoft?’ – if you have read this already, apologies, just read it once more). Just writing of all that food has me down with food poisoning (not kidding). So here… Continue reading Windows by Microsoft?

Been spending a lot of time at the Kala Ghoda festival, soaking in culture in small digestible bite-sized pieces… As I walk around the stalls on both ends of the road, I wonder about the way popular Bollywood has come to be accepted as part of the arts… Has it always been this way? I… Continue reading My own heritage walk

Time to ring in the new and throw out the old… for most Indians, it is not the new year’s day but a day two weeks later that marks this phase of hope. Co-inciding with the movement of the sun northward, or Uttarayan; longer days and happier times. Worship of the sun god; thanks for… Continue reading Penguins in the air

The swivel chair at home has now a new use. Since I have been off the internet and blogging, the computer chair lay unused for the last few days. Till my husband in a flash of brilliance converted it into my personal wheel chair. I came back from hospital with both feet bandaged – I… Continue reading Just a few hours away – Pawna Lake

Have you read Thurber’s The day the dam broke. I still laugh when I read James Thurber and this story of how rumors about a broken dam wall created panic in Columbus, Ohio, is one of my particular favorites. But broken dam walls are not all ha ha ha… “Look at these pictures,” said Hoster,… Continue reading A friend’s story