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 !
Dearest Appa, Today is Thiru Karthigai and its the 10th anniversary of your departure. We remembered you with some things that were very dear to you. Believe it or not, Amma made dosas on a cast iron tawa ! She has been making dosas on a cast iron tawa for the past week, ever since I … Read more
During summer holidays we would visit both my paternal and maternal grandparents. At my paternal grandmother’s place, they had cows at home and the milk would be heated in a heavy bottomed pan throughout the day as coffee was made or people drank milk. At night, my grandmother would scrape the bottom of that pan … Read more
As we walked around Inverness today, Krishnan found this written on a building across the Ness bridge and I immediately took a picture. Even though we are teetotallers, we know that aged Whisky is something special, so this quote is so true!! And very apt for this time as this vacation is all about spending … Read more
Dearest Appa, I made some Shrikhand with jaggery yesterday as I made the OPOS Gujarati Thali for lunch. We ate some of the Shrikhand yesterday but I kept some of it in the fridge because I remembered how much you relished eating Poori-Shrikhand. Today morning we made Pooris and I ate a couple with Shrikhand…I … Read more
I am wondering if it is a colonial hangover or does it predate the British rule ? Folks in rural India and many of the recently migrated folk in the city will ask you what the it is when they see you wearing a watch. With the cellphones becoming an extension of the human body, … Read more
The flames would have consumed your mortal body by now … that amazing smile, the animated face, the lively eyes and that golden heart will be missed forever. Dear Raji, I miss you already and I cannot imagine how Mani must be feeling. I have both your numbers stored as “Raji Mani” and “Mani Raji” … Read more
My father was posted in Shillong during 1980 to 1983. So we got to enjoy a beautiful Shillong before the hoards of Maruti cars took over Burra Bazaar. From Shillong, Appa would go to Tezpur, Zakhama, Bomdila and a few other places on temporary duty and Appa was a collector ! We have all sorts … Read more
Yesterday we had to get our car serviced and since our favourite service centre, Kashyap Volvo, is in Okhla Industrial Estate, we left early (around 8 am) to beat the traffic and reached in an hour’s time. The Okhla Industrial Estate or Modi mill compound as most Delhites would know it also has special memories … Read more
Dear Appa, Two days back it was the 9th year of your passing on …. and as it happens everyday, we were remembering many special moments with you. I was remembering your fascination for radios, tape recorders and VCRs. I still remember going one evening to the Secunderabad railway station and collecting that huge VCR … Read more
There was a Hewitt Associates that I joined on this day in 2003…. and what an organization it was !! I was remembering the special times that I have spent in Hewitt because, it has had an interesting journey since its marriage to Aon and the subsequent partial divorce leading to the creation of Alight … Read more