A Magical Naldehra Evening
I don’t have to say anything …. it rained a little in the evening and then the skies turned magical. Just couldn’t take our eyes off the stunning vista ! Stunning … isn’t it ?
Scotland Day 6 – Hot pursuit of “Nessie”
Wednesday Aug 29th, 2018 – Inverness The tour was to start at 8.30 am, so we called the Taxi by 7.45 am. Had packed a picnic lunch for the day and we ate some cereal and bread for breakfast at Peter’s place. The taxi came as scheduled and […]
Postcards from Sagar to Hyderabad … Cows and Rains!
On Saturday, Aug 11th, we started from Sagar on our way to Hyderabad. We woke up early, took bath and left the hotel by 5.40 am. Its an easy exit from Hotel Deepali back to the national highway. The very first picture I took that day as soon […]
Rain-Serviced Earth
I love the rains.. it was stormy and raining when I was born, so my mother doesn’t like the rains much for she went through a near death experience while giving birth to me but for me its the sound associated with my birth and hence soothing. Over […]
Rains and Sprouting New Knowledge
We woke up as usual around 4 am but realised that it was raining, so we just chatted for a while before checking our respective iPads. We leave our phones in the living room on silent when we go to sleep but we do keep the iPads close […]
Nature’s sound and water show !
I had put clothes out in the balcony to dry and when I started to put the last ones out I realised it was going to rain. This was around 2 pm. We had lunch and some premonition made me take the clothes in by 3. Mom felt […]
Remembering Dec 2nd 2015 #TheChennaiRains
6.21 am Dec 2, 2015 – Last year around this time we were in Chennai and had our first experience of floods. It was just 3 hours back that we had rushed upstairs in pitch darkness and water had started to seep into our bathrooms in the ground […]
ओले पड़े !! बेमौसम बारिश … No climate change though
Two days back we had a hail storm or sleet in the morning in Gurgaon, maybe it was also experienced in other parts of NCR. It is such a rare occurrence nowadays that mom thought someone was throwing small stones on the balcony !! It brought back memories […]
#ChennaiFloods – Coordination is the need of the hour
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 […]
Dec 3 and 4 – Days 3&4 of #TheChennaiRains
11.50 pm from Jamin Pallavaram … The fan is whirring and the tube light is on at my aunt’s place… We have managed to get back in touch with our friends and family that were worried sick about us and we managed to charge all our devices. We […]
