Dear Thirty-five year old Me, So we meet. Finally. I wish I could tell you that’s it been a long wait, and that I have been dying to meet you, but that would be a lie, and a totally un-necessary…
Letter to a 35-year old Me!
Category: Life
Wish List for Indian Railways
As I write this, the new Modi government is presenting it’s first Railway budget. As someone who loves travelling by train,and someone has traveled extensively by train across the world, I am looking forward to the budget. Having said that,…
Croatia – land of surprises
In my generation, if you were not hungry, you were happy. Today’s generation finds it more difficult. Before you dismiss it as the jaded, lazy, and uninspired comment from an unambitious old man, you have to get a bit more…
Is it just me?
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…
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…
What makes for a good travel partner!
I have always taken pride in the fact that I can get along with most people. On most days. So it’s really strange when I find that travelling with people is not that easy. Your travel partner could be your…
Conversations for a Married Couple
One of things that scared me about marriage was big gatherings. Not just gatherings with relatives, but even gatherings with friends. And if you know anything about me, that’s strange. I love being with people, and I have always loved…
The View from the Balcony
Every day after work, the husband and me sit sipping chai in our apartment balcony. It’s usually dusk, the sky is a brilliant cloudy orange, there’s the faint smell of the chemicals used for fumigating mosquitoes, there’s the sound of…
It’s not really about Molly Aunty
One of the highlights of this weekend was Molly Aunty. No, she is not a distant relative or a gift from my in laws 🙂 Molly Aunty Rocks is a Malayalam movie which released in theatres with fairly good reviews…
Venting again…
I have never understood why I have given so much importance to love. All that is a weapon – a weapon to defeat people. A weapon to wound, lash out, to massacre – till you reduce the person whom you…