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 !
Roti – All about Food. Kapda – All about Sarees. Makaan – All about our home, the Earth.
My Chitappa (Chachaji) has been with Guruji BKS Iyengar since 1989…. and he has tried in vain to influence everyone in the family to take up yoga except my father. Dad couldn’t go to Pune and learn from the institute but he did learn yoga from another master in Hyderabad and continued practising. When he … Read more
This post is specially dedicated to my childhood friend Adeeti… She wanted to know how we manage to travel with our kitchen. This post is also a way of thanking three innovators who made cooking while travelling so easy. With us being vegetarians, these innovations have made it even more easy for us to eat … Read more
I have always been fascinated with Kalamkari sarees, but I didn’t know someone who could source a genuine pen (kalam) Kalamkari. I bought my first Kalamkari saree at the Hyderabad airport as we went for our Cambodia trip in 2014, but that was block printed. Then I got a screen printed one which I didn’t … Read more
We started out for our road trip from Gurgaon to Pune on Feb 26th. We reached Jaipur on day one and stayed at Jai Niwas as Om Niwas was full and didn’t have any rooms available. The manager at Jai Niwas was ex-army and we spent a few minutes talking about the air strikes that … Read more
When I heard the news that plastic bags and one-time use plastic is being banned in TamilNadu, I didn’t believe it at all. I have been in Chennai frequently since 2015 and have seen the rampant use of plastic bags – every store I went to would first reach for a plastic bag and then … Read more
The following two pictures are from last evening during a gorgeous Sunset… What a spectacle and the sky looks like a canvas that has been painted over. The following picture is from today morning …. There is a slight fog and the Sun is yet to show up. Exactly how life is … sometimes you … Read more
On Amma’s birthday, I wore the first ever Manipuri Moirangphee saree. I had connected with the Manipuri Handloom Sarees page on FB in 2017 when I found out about the Moirangphee sarees on some saree forum. The colours were beautiful, the flower motifs were stunning and I definitely wanted one. I kept chatting with Herojit … Read more
One of the things that I have on my list of 50 things to do in this year to celebrate turning 50 is eat five new items. Only when I wrote that down did I realise that we often eat the “same” thing over and over again. When we order food, its the same things … Read more
I only cook the OPOS (One Pot One Shot) way everyday. I am constantly thinking of the layers and its almost an auto reflex to think of any recipe in terms of OPOS. Ever since I was introduced to this way of cooking, the variety of food at home has increased manifold. Things like Biriyani, … Read more
On our way back to the airport from our reunion on Nov 24, 2018 Amit mentioned this book about de-cluttering to Vandana and I. We then spoke about our habits of keeping our places clean and I mentioned how I try and only replace sarees rather than adding to my collection. I bought the book … Read more