and browns… The hills so green and alive for most of the year, brown and parched, just like the trees dotting their backs. An hour on the super smooth expressway and then a left just after Lonavala. Happy and bright sunflower beds on one side of the narrow road, sugarcane fields on the other. The… Continue reading Saturday afternoon blues..
Category: Travels
Tales from the road
Catch of the day
If you have been reading my blog for a while now, you will have noticed the sudden and sharp increase in the frequency and numer of photographs I have been posting of late. I would like to say that I discovered my interest in photography when at the tender and impressionable age of ten, I… Continue reading Catch of the day
Penguins in the air
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
Life on the fast lane
A recently married friend visited us at home this Sunday; she works in Pune and her husband here in Bombay and they have worked out a clever, if taxing whose-turn-is-it-this-time routine to spend time with each other over the weekends. Well, this time it was hers and so she was in Bombay and in the… Continue reading Life on the fast lane
On the road in India
The travel back to Vishakapatnam for my return flight to Bombay was exciting – not the drive itself, but for the many mild adventures it presented… The first one hour was through crowded villages struggling to be small towns, much like small children wanting to grow up quickly and immediately; people out in their Sunday… Continue reading On the road in India
Just a few hours away – Pawna Lake
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
A trip to Jodhpur
I have been at home, down and out with a wound in the foot that has got infected. Have been running – limping actually – between doctors who stare at the foot perplexed, and plot (!) the next move in their heads. I have been putting off this small operation but will have to go… Continue reading A trip to Jodhpur
Life is a beach
A different sunset each evening. And a different sunrise each morning too – if one is enthusiastic enough to wake up that early – after spending most of the night under a million stars. Make that a few million. Alright, maybe that is an exaggertaion. Blame it on the cool sands and the clear sky.… Continue reading Life is a beach
NH17 and road signs
Slight upheaval in life – I am joining a new job tomorrow – going to be working full time after many years – slow blogging this last one week since all my free time has been spent in getting myself out of the knots I have been tying myself into at thought of full time… Continue reading NH17 and road signs
A friend’s story
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