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 !
In the morning today, I called the AMEX call centre as I wanted to convert one of my charges into EMI’s. I got to speak to Raman and just like every colleague of his that I have spoken to before, he just made me smile at the end of the call. He gave me the … Read more
Krishnan’s favourite fruit is grapes. Thats the only fruit he will eat, everything else has to be juiced. When we were in the UK and then Germany for our vacation last year, he managed to eat some grapes because there was no pesticide sprayed on them ! But we never ate them in India. I … Read more
A few days back, Ms. Priyanka Chaturvedi, the very vocal CONgress spokesperson suddenly quit the CONgress and joined Shiv Sena, an ally of the BJP. She felt let down that some goons who had misbehaved with her and she had complained about it to the “Family” were brought back within 6 months of the incident … Read more
I have always been fascinated with spy stories – both fiction and real life ones. So when I saw this book titled “Mossad”, allegedly the greatest “spy” agency in the world, I immediately booked it. We recently got the Kindle Unlimited option with an Indian account on Amazon and its like we are in book … Read more
For some strange reason, Krishnan and I woke up at 2 am in the morning today and then finally we were up at 4.30 am as we were starting our road trip to Pune. Little did we know then that just 80 mins after we woke up, our Air Force jets had just dropped 1000 … Read more
On Feb 14th, supposedly the day of love, cowards from Pakistan’s terrorist cells attacked a CRPF convoy and 44 soldiers were martyred … The tricolour wrapped coffins hold the lifeless body parts of our soldiers killed in hatred not war. Some of the coffins are empty because no parts could be found. This is the … Read more
For many people, the best thing that came from the colonial rule was the Indian Railways. Unfortunately I don’t think the colonial rule did anything good because it fundamentally made us believe that our culture and traditions were inferior. The railways would have anyway come to India at some point in time, it didn’t need … Read more
On Feb 7th, we visited the Kumbh mela at Prayagraj ….one of the items on my list of 50 for this year and our bucket list. The visit happened because Vandana’s friends were visiting on these dates and we immediately did the booking. We are so glad that we did visit the Kumbh because it … Read more
We reached the Kumbh village by 11.45 am a full two hours late 😀. Vandana reached ten minutes before us. We took the Poorvottar express last night and it reached Prayag Raj a full 1.5 hours late. But one look at the Prayag Raj station and some of our irritation went out – it was … Read more
When Sunny Leone and her husband adopted a child I was thrilled and wanted to write a blog on how sensible that decision was in comparison to Shah Rukh Khan and his wife using surrogacy to have their 3rd child. I never wrote that blog because soon after, we heard of a series of celebs … Read more