This has become her morn­ing rou­tine. She wakes up reluc­tantly, mak­ing dis­pleased noises, when I stir in the morn­ing. Then she lies there, snug­gled in the blan­ket, watch­ing me get ready (and get­ting great plea­sure, I’m sure). Then she climbs across the dress­ing table and goes behind the cur­tain and perches there on the ledge […]

This story, for­warded by friend Asha, actu­ally reminded me of some­thing I’ve been mean­ing to write about too. How badly we treat the ones clos­est to us and the lengths we go to in front of acquain­tances and strangers, in order to cre­ate a good impres­sion. Says Asha: “Goes with my the­ory that we tend […]

This is quite amaz­ing! Instead of sit­ting around and com­plain­ing, this group is going around Chen­nai fix­ing pot­holes. We def­i­nitely need a few Ban­ga­lore­ans to get onto this. God knows, that after the recent rains, there will be many pot­holes that need fix­ing. Inter­est­ingly, any­one can take the lead and start it off. The Chen­nai I-Fix […]

It’s a famous place. As soon as you land there, the cor­a­cle guy informs us about it’s claim to fame — it was fea­tured in the movie Roja. I shall have to go back and watch Roja some­time, I make a note. The Hogenakkal falls itself is quite spec­tac­u­lar, with water gush­ing out through sev­eral chan­nels and […]

For those of you who want to have a look at the pics on dis­play dur­ing the exhi­bi­tion, you can visit this link: Anita’s Gallery The prints are between 16x24 (with 2 inch bor­ders) and 20x32 (with 3 inch bor­der) and all framed. If you’re inter­ested in get­ting one for your house, or even gift­ing one […]

North East Chron­i­cles: Located in the mid­dle of the mighty Brahma­pu­tra river, the jour­ney to Majuli island is around 2 and a half hours in a noisy ferry. We vis­ited the island on March 22 & 23, 2007 dur­ing our North East trip. At the Nimati ferry ghat, the junc­tion where you need to board a […]

It was pretty hec­tic the last two days. Peo­ple have been stream­ing in through the day. Lots of friends (and lots who promised didn’t turn up, but that is always expected!). Some nice sur­prises, peo­ple who came in through this blog and Ban­ga­lore Met­blogs also. The Slimes refused to fea­ture us, and we didn’t get […]

Update: The Invi­ta­tion LtoR: The Four Mus­ke­teers: Venky, me, Shankar and Nish Please, please do come! All details will be put up shortly. Mean­while, I have to get back to some work…