So another year passed by. And like we often say as we get older — ‘quickly’. I remem­ber writ­ing this same post last year. The thing about blogs is that you can actu­ally look back year on year and check what you were think­ing at that point of time. For some­one with a bad memory […]

“You’ve never been to Food Street?” I could hear dis­be­lief in Badri’s voice when I replied in the neg­a­tive. It’s true. I’ve never been there. Never had the chance. And besides, no one’s ever sug­gested meet­ing at Food Street before. So on Sun­day evening, a few of us got together and decided on a rendezvous […]

Just back from a week long cycling trip to Goa. We cycled over 60 kms every day over 5 days. The weather was hot and steamy. The ter­rain was up and down and mostly unpre­dictable. We crossed beaches, lit­tle towns, ham­lets, green fields, min­ing areas, hills, plains, forests and wildlife sanc­tu­ar­ies. We saw Goa like we’d […]

When I finally learnt how to cycle prop­erly at the begin­ning of this year, I didn’t think I’d be sign­ing up for a week long cycling trip. But I did : so here I am! A few weeks ago, I went on my first long cycling trip to a place called Chik­tiru­pati. And of course, despite […]

I was out last evening and it was pretty late when I was catch­ing up on my tweets when I saw a post about blasts in Mum­bai. After that, there was no sleep for a cou­ple of hours as I was fol­low­ing the reports com­ing in from dif­fer­ent folks. It’s been numb­ing to say the least. […]

Last year’s Ultra was my first long dis­tance run­ning event. Besides the fact that I had no idea about the route (espe­cially the uphill sec­tions), I had also not run more than 10–12 kms in train­ing. So it was quite an expe­ri­ence for me. But what was really moti­vat­ing was the fact there were so […]

A review of the newly opened Oh Calcutta

Being a fish (and food) lover, it doesn’t take much to entice me for a meal. Espe­cially a Ben­gali meal, since it’s the clos­est I can get to an Assamese meal. I am on a sort of cook­ing sab­bat­i­cal, so find­ing new restau­rants to try out also helps a lot.

I spent 3 days in Fort Cochin dur­ing the month of Octo­ber. It was a most relaxed trip where I walked by the sea, observed the fish­er­men, had some gor­geous food and dis­cov­ered that even on a small lit­tle island you can keep your­self busy… For me, it is prob­a­bly one of the best times of […]