Bhutan Chron­i­cles, Oct 2007: After get­ting our per­mits to enter Bhutan, the road jour­ney from the bor­der town of Phuntshol­ing to Paro took us around 9 hours. The road is not in a good shape due to fre­quent land­slides and soil ero­sion. On the way from Paro to Phuntshol­ing In the small bor­der town of […]

When I came across the post on the RFL run­ning group about run­ning on the run­way at the new Ban­ga­lore air­port, I couldn’t not be inter­ested! I mean, how many times will I get the chance to say while look­ing our of the air­craft win­dow (feel­ing really cool and all that, might I add), â€œOh, […]

Caught up with a bunch of inter­est­ing women at Sum­i­tra Senapathy’s WOW get together on Sat­ur­day evening in town. I got there late after bat­tling heavy Ban­ga­lore traf­fic (okay, the usual!) but there was still quite a bit of wine left :) I’ve writ­ten about WOW before so I won’t go into details again. But if […]

Climb every moun­tain, search high and low Fol­low every by way, every path you know Climb every moun­tain, ford every stream Fol­low every rain­bow, till you find your dream A dream that will need, all the love you can give Every­day of your life, for as long as you live From the Sound of Music Spent […]

Ear­lier last year, around March, when I moved house, I didn’t have a tele­vi­sion set. My pre­vi­ous owner had one at the flat which I put to good use. When I moved I didn’t imme­di­ately buy one and it wasn’t a con­scious deci­sion at first, but then I decided that I’d try liv­ing with­out a […]

I was talk­ing to a friend yes­ter­day about how I wished I could spend more time writ­ing and he replies, “Well, if you can wake up by around 5 am in the morn­ing every­day, you get a good 2 extra hours in a day where you can prob­a­bly get your best writ­ing done.” Now that makes […]