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 !
One of my uncles passed away yesterday … He was married to my father’s sister. She had passed away almost six years back. They have three children, two daughters and a son, all married with children of their own. My aunt had a sharp tongue but she worked her heart out and gave all that … Read more
A few weeks back I happened to see the program “Airtel Super Singer” that’s aired on Vijay TV. There are two versions of it – for the above 18 folk and then a junior version where any child who can sing can participate. The prize is always a flat in Temple Greens from Arun Excello … Read more
Dear Bapu, I was born exactly 100 years after you and was brought up being told about your doctrines, your experiments with truth and the non-violence principle. My dad infact had your 3 monkeys as a display item always at home. As I grew up and learnt a bit more, understood life a bit more, … Read more
What normally should have taken me 15 minutes or 20 minutes took an hour and left my left leg in pain… While returning from work today, I got caught in a traffic jam and never took my foot off the clutch 🙁 there was apparently a procession (from a religious group, not usually associated with … Read more
Today it finally bugged me enough to write about it. We live in an apartment complex with 12 other families in Bangalore. The parking is along the wall on the ground floor and another set of parking in the basement. On the ground floor parking, people just don’t park within their allocated space and there … Read more
On our way back from Hampi last evening, we had stopped at the toll booth near Bangalore. There were nearly seven lines. Along each line of cars, a transgender (hijada) came and asked for money. Very few people even looked at them, let alone give them some money. When the lady came to our car, … Read more
Yesterday all the news channels were showing 10, Janpath and the group of important congress leaders with the PM and Madam Sonia Gandhi deciding about splitting Andhra Pradesh into AP and Telangana. And for some reason I started thinking of Sardar Patel. There are two stories of the “Iron” man of India – one when … Read more
The disaster in Uttarakhand is heart rending … I was remembering how Appa and I walked the 14 kms to reach Kedarnath in 1985 and Amma came on the pony. The taste of the roadside tea still lingers and the warmth of the razai at the guesthouse just outside the temple, still feels cozy. The … Read more
We drove back from Hyderabad today after my classes. We wanted to buy mangoes again at Rajmahal Road but couldn’t since traffic was backed up really long. So we decided to have sugarcane juice near our house. While the three of us were having our sugarcane juice, a slightly old lady came and asked for … Read more
So Sanjay Dutt went to jail for his wrong doing – on a really big scale. It wasn’t a small “mistake” even if he didn’t know the consequences. This boy who funded his education by selling newspapers from when he was 10 years old has got admission to IIM Kolkatta. The reason I write about … Read more