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 […]
You are browsing archives for
Month: December 2014
The Luxury Of Doing Nothing
I remember a time when I hated sitting around doing nothing. My days had to be packed with things to do, places to go, people to meet or I felt like I would go crazy. And somewhere along the way I had to make peace with having too much time and too little to do. […]
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 […]
Pain Demands To be Felt
Someone suggested I watch The Fault In Our Stars for a change of perspective. Instead I watched the movie to be reminded of something I believed in but had forgotten about. Pain demands to be felt. It is easier to fall into someone else’s arms at the end of a relationship. It is easier to find […]
What Growing Older Teaches You
A lot of advertising revolves around the horrors of growing old. They remind you again and again, your face needs to defy age. There are serums and potions out there that can erase signs of ageing. Magazines tell you how to fight cellulite. How to get rid of the muffin top belly. How to work […]
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 […]
Christmas With Little Sisters Of The Poor
In a city thrumming with festive cheer, the monastic stone structure on Hosur Road, synonymous with the Little Sisters of the Poor, reveals just a few overtures to Christmas. A crib, a tree, some modest festoons bring cheer to the elderly inmates being served a modest lunch, with the help of two young […]
A Forgotten App Called Etiquette
In a recent interview, a best-selling author had commented that his books are competing against apps like Candy Crush and Flappy Birds. I do admit being hooked to these games for hours and feeling frustrated about an unproductive day in the end. It’s a travesty that books (even humorous fiction), does not sell well these […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]