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 !
Bindu & Krishnan Today morning Arun and I had a healthy discussion on facebook about GM food, pesticides, lifespans etc. Yes Monsanto too. Monsanto for years has been at the receiving end of a lot of flak and I tried searching for articles that were balanced. Found this one Food – is Monsanto the answer or the problem. … Read more
This is the first time I was reluctant to leave Chennai… I like Chennai but am not super fond of it. I love the sarees at Kumaran Stores and its THE place where most of my sarees come from. I was a die-hard fan of Saravana Bhavan but have shifted my allegiance to Murugan Idli … Read more
In the past ten days I have heard of two suicides and both completely avoidable as many suicides are. I understand completely why someone would want to take their own lives and according to Newton Kondaveti most of us have committed suicide in one lifetime or the other. I don’t attach any stigma or pass … Read more
As Krishnan drove from Udavum Ullangal to Red Ginger through the narrow bylanes of Mandaveli, I was terrified that the Yeti might get nicked and worse that we might just hit one of the “weavers” :):):). The weavers are not the saree makers but men and women who blend with their bikes and weave in … Read more
I had taken the Coromandel Express from Vizag, on 12th March 1990 … Luckily a delayed train since I had misread the timing in the morning and the slow moving goods train nearly made Appa’s prediction come true that I will miss the train. But life was about to bring us together and what can … Read more
So you thought what is this new game ? And what do these scores mean :). Well this is the new hurdle crossing game that Karnataka has launched on the roads. Let me explain this better. We drove down from Madikeri to Bangalore today. The road is world class and you can nearly get every … Read more
In the last few days we have had a huge debate raging over the documentary made by Leslee Udwin called “India’s daughter”. Some denounce it because it offers a rapist who has been sentenced to death a platform to justify his crime. Some denounce it by saying it is voyueristic, some others denounce it by … Read more
We met the first ray of the Sun yesterday in the afternoon and I waited till today morning to write about them because it made sense to write as soon as the Sun came up rather than at night. We had read about Arushi and had reached out to them on email. We were to … Read more
We woke up at 5 am just so that we could leave Agra early and give all the traffic a miss … But that was not to be. Last evening as we were loading the bags in the car, I connected the fridge to the charging point. I presumed that since the fridge was switched … Read more
Just before Alexander the Great left for his world conquest, he went to see master Diogenes who was a renowned mystic of those times. Diogenes lived naked with just a begging bowl and later in life he threw the begging bowl away saying, he could cup his hands and seek alms so why even own … Read more