Is it just me who’s bothered?….. or is there nothing to be bothered about? Yesterday’s newspaper had an obscure bit of news – forest fires in Wayanadu, where fires had been started at 15 different places simultaneously; leading to the…
Spiti
“Let me out!!! Let me out NOW!!!! NOW I said! Stop this car!! Open this door!” Okay, this is not a rape scene from a Bollywood movie. That’s actually me screaming and yelling and weeping, well almost. Before anybody…
Kool Musafir
Does anybody remember these water cans? If you are as old as me, or older than me, you would remember these as the Milton water cans that you would carry along with you on long journeys. If you had the…
Hampi
When I was a child, my favorite subject is school was English. Every summer vacation when my parents would buy school text books for the coming year, I would grab the English books and immerse myself in the stories that…
When we get it right – Silent Valley (Part 2)
We bundled ourselves into the jeep, and into Silent Valley. Well, actually, two jeeps. We tried being cheap, and tried to squeeze ourselves into one, but the guys at the Information Center took one look at the hubby and me,…
When we get it right – Silent Valley (Part 1)
The hubby and me have this constant argument about how good things are abroad, and how we mess up things in India. He thinks I am a snob (which I admit I probably am, but if I am perfect…