It was a tir­ing and tough climb. And to make mat­ters worse, I had an injured ankle I had sus­tained play­ing bad­minton last week­end, which slowed me down con­sid­er­ably. Thank­fully, I had com­pany in this really sweet young (but some­times frus­trat­ing) thing called Carielle and we kept moti­vat­ing each other in turns till we reached […]

We joke about death and dying. But it’s hard to accept when it actu­ally strikes. It hap­pened ear­lier in the year when a close friend lost her hus­band. He was in his 30s. Two young chil­dren. She’s never worked in her life. One day, he had a stroke and he was gone. He was traveling […]

He’s been most kind to fix the com­ment spam prob­lems on my blog and many oth­ers! Helped me find a decent eco­nom­i­cal host and also heeded my cries for help at some point of time or another. And in the mid­dle of all thank­less tech sup­port, he has time to run a retau­rant. So I […]

Ear­lier in the week, I had writ­ten about vis­it­ing Yesh­vant­pur mar­ket and a school on Inde­pen­dence Day. Here are a few snap­shots… The colours of India… The heights of patri­o­tism?! Girl in a bas­ket Isn’t it ironic? Colour coor­di­nated bindi And more pic­tures on the photoblog…

I’ve been enjoy­ing the weather the last few days. Kit Kit too is find­ing it much cooler com­pared to Mum­bai and can often be found perch­ing on my lap, or cud­dling up under the blan­ket (which she would never do there!). I’ve been in a good mood too. Even the reminder from my pro­fes­sor about my […]

Last Sat­ur­day, I ven­tured into Lal­bagh Gar­dens at about 8.00 am in the morn­ing and got the shock of my life. That place was crowded! The aim was to take morn­ing shots of the flower show. Unfor­tu­nately I had prob­lems load­ing the film into my cam­era so I was stuck with brows­ing around. I did […]

While at Yesh­vant­pur mar­ket yes­ter­day, Vasu, one of the Ban­ga­lore shut­ter­bug­gers, com­mented that there is no place as colour­ful as India. Just take a walk through a busy Indian mar­ket and there’s proof all around you. Women in colour­ful sarees. Onions. Gar­lic. Chill­ies. Gin­ger. Cau­li­flow­ers. Brin­jals. Cap­sicum. Banana carts. Peanuts. Piles of multi-coloured flow­ers — red […]

Have been mean­ing to post my pic­tures from the Bandipur-Ooty trip, but the connection’s (Tata Indi­com) been really bad from home. Finally, man­aged to get a few of them uploaded. Enjoy! Mean­while, am not going to pay much atten­tion to my online per­sona (mean­ing blog­ging will be light for a week at least) as I […]