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 !
During our ShikshaDaan Yatra we stop at small “dhabas” and tea shops and talk to people there because we get some great insights on the state of the state !! This time around when we were at a roadside tea shop near Jhansi, we asked about the Jan Dhan account and the insurance schemes – … Read more
Meru taxi service has largely been reliable, so Krishnan had booked a Meru taxi to take us to the railway station today. Just half hour before the scheduled time, we got a message saying there aren’t any taxis available so a “flexi” taxi was being sent. Krishnan was a little apprehensive but the driver called … Read more
Last evening we drove back to Gurgaon from Hyderabad. On Friday, we took our standard route of Hyderabad – Nagpur – Sauner – Chinddwara – Narsinghpur – Sagar, and halted at hotel Deepali residency in Sagar for the night. Yesterday the route we took was Sagar – Lalitpur – Jhansi – Gwalior – Agra – … Read more
2.10 pm At Jamin Pallavaram. Krishnan, my uncle and I went out at about 8 am to help with the local relief efforts. The apartment complex where my aunt stays have organised cooked meals and have been reaching it to families stranded in the Anakaputhur area for the past four days. I helped with cutting … Read more
I misread the #IntolerantIndia voices completely. It took an Aamir Khan’s wife Kiran Rao and Dileep Kumar, Ooops A. R. Rahman to bring me to my senses. Ofcourse India is intolerant and I will tell you how. What happened in the Bihar elections ? It wasn’t the victory of democracy as we have been led … Read more
Bishamber Singh did not feel cold, the fire of patriotism kept him warm. He was fighting off the enemy on the icy peaks of East Ladakh. His weapon was less powerful than the enemy’s but his resolve and courage was stronger and many times more powerful. He was 28, built like an ox. His mother … Read more
Feb 22 – April 16… 56 days Feb 23 – corporate espionage drama unfolds further. This Govt seems hellbent on doing all the right things like not letting the big bucks influence decisions …. Remember, Reliance had been running the country for a long time, petroleum ministers changed at will… Feb 24 – Land Acquisition … Read more
Not so long ago, in 1962, we paid a huge price and conceded defeat in a war due to the supposed political naivety of Pandit Nehru. I ofcourse find it hard to believe that Pandit Nehru was that naive, because he seems to have managed to get ahead politically even though he wasn’t the most … Read more
The book got published in 2012 and Kabir told me about it. I somehow didn’t get the book and finally just before the run up to the general elections I picked it up. Am glad I did because it made me vote the way I did :):). I knew Tavleen Singh, the journalist, but didn’t … Read more
It’s exciting times ahead, with elections, the arguments and counter arguments, the exit polls and opinion polls – the democratic process in all it’s glory ! The way the various parties and netas behave provides a lot of fodder for people like me who like to extrapolate these situations to the corporate world and think … Read more