There are some days when I feel incredibly old.. or older. Its usually a landmark of some sort. Today is such a day, when I see that ‘Published Posts’ tab on my blog dashboard – 600. Oh, okay, who am I kidding? It isn’t only the blog, its that Baskin Robbins like feeling. 31!! Me!! […]
Murzban F Shroff Breathless in Bombay is Mumbai..completely, teeming with characters that gives Mumbai its current character. Shroff uses characters from many walks of life and across age bands to describe the lives that make up the city. And these are not just the Mumbaikars, but also those who come from different parts of the […]
The Thippasandra version of this restaurant has been around for sometime now. But we’ve never managed to go there. So, when we saw an ad that announced the opening of a Thavarekere version, we didn’t waste much time in checking it out. When coming from Dairy Circle, take a right turn on to Thavarekere Main […]
He’d never tried it. But circumstances were such that he really had no alternative. He was stuck at a party that was ending, and he didn’t have a cab. He didn’t know the hosts well enough. Hers was the last car to leave. He would attempt a pick up line, just so he’d get dropped. […]
Herman Hesse Somewhere in Pankaj Mishra’s ‘The Romantics’, there’s a conversation about ‘Siddhartha’ and it being a reason for a Westerner’s interest in Buddhism and India. A conversation, not my view 🙂 That, and the fact that it also finds mention in Mishra’s other book ‘An End to suffering’ is primarily what led me to […]