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Archive for December, 2003

Jeera water, anyone?

The week­end at Ayur­gram held two inter­est­ing rev­e­la­tions for me: a) that boiled cumin seed (jeera) water can be really addic­tive and b) that being spoilt silly is some­thing I’m enjoy­ing way too much. I must have guz­zled a few litres of this amaz­ingly refresh­ing drink that I have never tasted before. The day started with […]

Kerala style in Karnataka city

I had an awe­some time the last time I vis­ited Ban­ga­lore. This time around, it’s more of work, but I have the evenings to wan­der around. Mean­while, I’m try­ing to come up with ideas to amuse myself! The ‘Cel­e­brate Ban­ga­lore’ fes­ti­val on from the 7-14th promises to be inter­est­ing. Am hop­ing to catch some of […]

Travelling tales

If you’re fond of travel, you’ll prob­a­bly enjoy read­ing the jounals of a few blog­gers who are on the road. You can catch Mahesh on his back-packing adven­ture across Turkey. Mean­while, OJ has deserted the warm climes of India and reached the frozen climes of Canada. Both have lots of pho­tographs to spice up their posts. Sid […]

Taparia meets Gere

Richard Gere has been one of my all-time Hol­ly­wood favourites ever since he walked off into the sun­set car­ry­ing his lady love in his arms in An Offi­cer and a Gen­tle­man. So when I saw this pic­ture, I was faced with two strong emo­tions: 1) envy of a friend and for­mer col­league and 2) excitement […]

Cast your vote

The Asia Weblogs Award 2003 and the Indiblog­gies 2003 are on right now. Do go across and do the needful…

Cat call

My hubby called early in the morn­ing. No, no, he isn’t miss­ing me yet! He wanted to know where to get the cat food. In the two and a half years we’ve had Kit Kit, he’s bought cat food about twice. From a shop near our house, which no longer keeps her brand. Now, it’s a […]

Fish fingers at the Moulin Rouge

Decem­ber 3: What I love about Park Street is the way it lights up in the evening. There are cof­fee joints, pubs, book stores, gift shops, net cafes, restau­rants and office build­ings all jostling for space, mak­ing it a very busy place. While roam­ing around in the evening, I was attracted by the colour­ful entrance […]

Catching up in Calcutta

Checked into my lit­tle room at Hotel Cir­cu­lar and found to my dis­may that the rooms are nei­ther cir­cu­lar, nor very large! Any­way, since I will be spend­ing much of my time out­side of it, I decided not to worry about size at this junc­ture. Got a taxi dri­ver to drive me around the Victoria […]

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