Nasik: Leisure Redefined

Nasik: Leisure Redefined

 I had gone to Nasik last year with a few friends. It was more to enjoy the drive just after the monsoons, and we stayed at Sula’s resort Beyond. While Beyond is not bad, it is definitely not worth the premium. This year when the monsoons came to a close, a road-trip to Nasik hovered again […]

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Church Street: After The Blast

Church Street: After The Blast

  Every Bangalorean has a Church Street memory. From NASA, the grounded spaceship cum pub in the mid nineties to RR restaurant which was supposedly the favourite of Raj Kapoor for its Gongura chutney, avakai pickle, gunpowder and the secret recipes from Guntur and Nellore that sang to you from a plantain leaf. Dahlia, the little Japanese eatery […]

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A Christmas Gift Of Warmth

A Christmas Gift Of Warmth

When we call young HR professional Theja Harjani, she is in the bylanes of Shivajinagar, distributing blankets to the homeless. “I do this around Christmas every year and this is the fifth year,” she says. She became sensitive to the plight of the homeless when, on her way back home after a night shift, she […]

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No Love Apptually

No Love Apptually

  Whatever they told you about love and romance is getting a complete make-over in today’s age of plug-ins and widgets. Love in the air has been replaced by love in the digital maze of dating apps that claim to help you find your ideal soul mate!  Forget the fabled heart-in-the-mouth or butterflies-in-the-belly moments; it is […]

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My Tryst With Smoking

My Tryst With Smoking

It  took  decades  for  the  ill effects of tobacco on health to  be  made  public  and  many  nations took some  more  years  to  ban  smoking  in  public  places and  spend  on anti-smoking  campaigns.. Between the two world wars, cigarettes were  part of a soldiers rations.  There was not a single film where  somebody  didn’t smoke.  […]

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Why Turkey Is Next On My List

Why Turkey Is Next On My List

Blame it on the book I’m reading (Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul) or the interest in seeing the cultural impact of it being in both Asia and Europe, but I can’t deny that I’m completely smitten by Turkey. Now before you think that it’s just another country in the Middle East, let me show you this: No, it’s not […]

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San Francisco: A Holiday Treat

San Francisco: A Holiday Treat

Experiencing a city during the festive season is like meeting someone on their wedding day. People tend to be on their best behaviour the day they are getting married. In fact, even the most obnoxious ones are amiable and benign on this day and just so, even the most vicious cities are friendly and becoming […]

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