I seri­ously fail to under­stand the rea­son­ing behind remak­ing a clas­sic. They should leave them alone. Let them be! So, here’s what’s hap­pen­ing to Don. And I’m already a lit­tle afraid for Umrao Jaan and Sholay.

A road trip to Chik­ma­galur on the Diwali week­end. Away from the noise and pol­lu­tion of the city, under the starry skies, in a remote bun­ga­low, nes­tled deep within a cof­fee plan­ta­tion. I couldn’t have wished for a bet­ter loca­tion to spend the long week­end! Octo­ber 21–23.

Some­where in the bow­els of Fraser Town is a non-descript place called Pot­tery Town. It’s not really a town, just a street that houses about 30 pot­ter fam­i­lies. And have been for quite some time now. Appar­ently, Pot­tery Town was born when the Gov­ern­ment gave 60 pot­ters a des­ig­nated area on a 30-year lease. Over the years, the potter’s days of glory has declined and many of the new gen­er­a­tion don’t want to take it up.

Blog reader and now blog­ger Divs writes, “Where are more pics, Anita?” So here’s espe­cially for him a travel diary and more pics from my recent trip! And thanks Divs for the pics and your home­s­tay details (check end of post on where to stay). It might be use­ful for those of you plan­ning trips […]

Just returned from a nice three day trip to Coorg via Nagar­hole and Kabini. So another one day break in the mid­dle of the week has added to the hol­i­day spirit. The Kar­nataka bandh, called by Kan­nada activists, has been called unnec­es­sary by the CM him­self. The whole exer­cise of shift­ing the Kar­nataka leg­is­la­ture session […]