I met Emma while on a ski­ing trip to Auli, Uttaran­chal in Feb­ru­ary 2005. It didn’t take long for us to connect!

Pho­tograph­ing chil­dren can be quite a delight : they usu­ally have such mis­chie­vous, friendly, cute, unaf­fected and charm­ing expres­sions : that cap­tur­ing them on cam­era is a joy well worth the effort.

This is inspired by the responses I got to the post about roads, which some­how got into a dis­cus­sion about insid­ers and outsiders.

I have to write about two per­for­mances that I enjoyed in the last week.

One was last Sun­day evening at the Palace Grounds — Octo­ber­fest, the fes­ti­val orga­nized by King­fisher. Since, beer is not some­thing that tick­les my fancy, I was hop­ing the music would be worth going for. On that note, I must also add, that I was pleas­antly sur­prised by the way the whole set-up was orga­nized. They had nice seat­ing arrange­ments all around the front area of the stage, so you could chill out and eat your food and drink your beer and enjoy the music from wher­ever you were.

I was look­ing through my trip pho­tographs and decided to pick one or two from every place I vis­ited and do a quick photo essay : a mem­ory recap through all the places and sights I saw and the peo­ple I met. Just lit­tle mem­o­ries that keep pop­ping up… Here they are, coun­try­wise, but in no par­tic­u­lar order.

I know you’re prob­a­bly really tired of traf­fic woes, but can I really help it?

Bangalore’s roads now resem­ble the moon’s crater. Espe­cially with the recent rain episode, what­ever lit­tle we had in terms of roads is now a fig­ment of our imag­i­na­tions. We will soon need moon bug­gies to get from one place to another. And we might even have to start for work the prior day to get to office on time, is the thought of the hour.

So it was my last evening in Lon­don. My cab dri­ver arrived on the dot. As expected he was Asian. It didn’t take very long for him to get chat­ting. They’re usu­ally very friendly and dying to find out key infor­ma­tion about you. Namely — your name, your coun­try, and your mar­i­tal status :)