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 !
Dear Appa, Yesterday we were remembering you .. Amma made the Deepawali Marunthu using the powder that you had made so many years back. It has turned out to be yum as always, just without the dollops of ghee that Amma used earlier :). She is miffed about it but it’s ok, she has adjusted … Read more
Last night we thought we were all prepared, packed and ready to go, till I tried to login to my borderless prepaid card account. At first the website wouldn’t work, but that got resolved through excellent Tele-support. Once I managed to login, I realised that the account had not been uploaded with the dollars I … Read more
Any food wolfed down before someone walks in, tastes so much nicer 🙂 brings back the childhood memories of hiding something from mum or dad and eating it. I went to the Vashi office and Monica and Reshma managed to get me the vada pav that I love … Yes, that’s what I ate quickly … Read more
Dear Appa, Guess what Amma did yesterday ? Went out for a walk late in the evening and while coming back a little boy on a cycle came out from between two cars and hit her. She fell down and has scratches all over … And a boxer’s shiner on her left eye. No she … Read more
Krishnan’s mini-surgery has forced us to stay in Gurgaon for three more weeks than planned. In the process of getting Krishnan to be pain free, we have realised a few others things as well. As we have been living in Bangalore, we have left behind just one set of vessels, a few cups, plates, ladles … Read more
Mom has a collection of Oomda, Dalda containers from nearly 40 years back. She gave me some when I got married and Krishnan managed to take the cover off one of them along with the neck 🙂 These are plastic containers. Oomda and Dalda were brands of Vanaspati or the now dreaded hydrogenated vegetable oil. … Read more
I guess destiny is just what happened to my blogpost on Jan 1st 🙂 I had completed the blogpost last night and tried posting it but the network played truant and I couldn’t. Finally today I managed to post it just now and it doesn’t allow me to change the date to the 1st. So … Read more
I ate a bagel with cream cheese today from Au Bon Pain and I was remembering the first time I tasted a bagel with cream cheese and fell in love with both … I think it happened in 2007 during one of my visits to Lincolnshire, I was attending an early morning meeting with Greg … Read more
In 1997 we went and stayed at our friend Raji and Mani’s place in Vashi – we had just shut down our business and were trying to find opportunities in Mumbai to restart our careers. One of those days, Nisha took us to a roadside pushcart vendor and introduced us to “dabeli” a snack that … Read more
There are some things about Singapore that I love – the cleanliness, the safety, for a long time the Changi airport was the best airport we had seen, the Jurong bird park, the MRT and Ananda Bhavan. Singapore was the first “foreign” country that I visited and it has been a lucky start…. Have had … Read more