This blog is our space to write about our thoughts, views and notes about our travels. Osho owned 90 Rolls Royces while being a Sanyasi …. The so-felt contradiction is very fascinating and hence the name !
Sept 27, 2019 – 2.30 pm Vienna Time I have always had challenges reading on a bus or in a car. I would be very uncomfortable with the constant movement in the bus and in a car mostly I will be driving. Even in an Uber I would ask Krishnan to type out any messages … Read more
This is the second book by Fiona Barton that I am reading …. the first one blew me away and set the bar really high. This one is equally gripping and fast paced, but I felt let down by the ending. I expected a twist in the tale but it didn’t come and I could … Read more
I don’t have a sweet tooth and I don’t like cakes very much, but there are certain cakes that I like eating once in a while. I love the Chocolate mud pie or mud cake.. don’t know where I tasted it first but a warm chocolate mud pie is just awesome. In Cafe Delhi Heights … Read more
Yesterday was the mega “Howdy Modi” event at Houston and Krishnan and I didn’t miss a minute of it. How could we ? Our rockstar PM was addressing the largest gathering of Indians outside of India ! When I met Americans through work for the first time in 2001, they didn’t know much about India. … Read more
There are certain things that I have loved from when I was a little girl – the tiny nose stud, the bindi, Kajal for my eyes and of course sarees. I have never fallen out of love with these things. In 1978, when we visited my maternal grandparents in Tirunelveli during school holidays, I asked … Read more
Every year since you formed the government and I registered on the NaMo App, I have got birthday wishes from you. This is the first year that you haven’t sent the birthday wishes and it happened to be my 50th, so I was a little disappointed !! I do hope you will make up for … Read more
When Venkatesh Narasimhan, the MD of Cooptex posted a set of Arani silk sarees on the FB page in early July, I stored the picture of one of those sarees … it was a pale pista green saree with red or maroon “tree of life” motifs all over. It was a very different design and … Read more
Krishnan loves this quote of Oscar Wilde – And I was remembering this as I saw messages about Chidambaram going to Tihar Jail …. With all due respect to Oscar Wilde, I would like to re-state his famous quote as “Some people cause misery wherever they go, and happiness WHENEVER they go” (and silently in … Read more
My friend Vidya had re-posted an excerpt from this book on FB about how a young working girl was ready to sleep with a guy for money because she needed to buy the latest smartphone and I felt a chill in my spine. I don’t sit in judgment of that young girl at all, and … Read more
When I read the first Robert Galbraith novel “The Cuckoo’s calling” I was instantly drawn into the characters of Cormoran Strike and Robin. First it was a “striking” name (pun intended), really, Cormoran Strike? Is that a name ? Then as you get drawn into the plot and the mental picture of this man, you … Read more