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 !
….. Every country has a “different” photo requirement for processing their visa. Why ? I get the logic of needing a photo for providing their visa, but why have a different size specification ? The tourist has to keep taking different sized pictures every time they visit a different country. Cant the UN resolve this … Read more
Its perfectly ok for some MLA’s in a certain union territory called Delhi can have dual income. The “nautanki” CM and his band of “soap” artists get on to the pulpit everyday and declare themselves as the only honest people around and EVERYONE else as corrupt. If there is no topic on which to deride … Read more
When our rich heritage of brass idols, paintings and precious stones etc were first looted by the British and then pilfered by many others…. We never took any offence. We also never tried to get back many of the artefacts, for some we made half hearted attempts !! Then allegedly a certain shop in Italy … Read more
In a nation that has 1.25 billion people, one political party is unable to find a leader outside a certain gene pool…. they have tall leaders, literally and metaphorically, they have enough money to bring in anyone who they think can be a good leader, but they still clamour to elect a “dodo” as their … Read more
When Guru Sri Sri Ravishankar of the Art of Living Foundation wanted to conduct a world culture festival on the banks of the Yamuna river, the normally vociferous always-in-dharna-mode CM of Delhi didn’t raise a whimper. The other arm of his parent party, the scam-ridden CONteam tried to put a spoke in the works by … Read more
In a country where a lady of foreign origin can marry into the political first family and in a span of 25 years after her husband’s death she becomes richer than the Queen of England……. and no one dare question that. No one has seen her bank balance and there is no public outcry about … Read more
His eyes are moist … As today’s new leaders hound his beautiful, loving son. He cries out aloud – “Don’t target my child, target me !”. He remembers those days when he was the Queen’s trusted lieutenant, managing the Royal coffers. When his son was born, he rejoiced, gave a grand party in his ancestral … Read more
A lion cub was born in a remote jungle just around the time that some fat rats were in power. The fat rats felt dark clouds gathering but didn’t understand then why they felt scared. There was much cream to skim, carcasses whose bones had to be licked dry, nuts to be stored in safe … Read more
First there were the resident elephants, the matriarch and her beloved son who led the way and all other elephants followed. The old ant had seen the matriarch as a little girl and couldn’t believe that she could run amok destroying the forest ! When that happened, he gathered all the ants and started thinking … Read more
Still hopeful … today feels like May 16, 2014. On May 16th last year, for the first time we voted for a Prime Minister who was born post independence, didn’t come from a single gene pool and he managed to get a thumping majority against all odds. Today, for the first time, the mother-son duo … Read more