2011 came with­out much warn­ing. I breezed through 2010. A lot of travel and work kept me busy and off the blog! The “project” I much wanted to launch didn’t see light of day (at least for­mally). But then, that’s life, I dis­cov­ered. Most things you have on your “to do” list don’t get done […]

Rahul Vergh­ese, founder of Run­ning and Liv­ing has doc­u­mented his expe­ri­ence in this video of the Com­rades Marathon. Watch it here. Tan­vir Kazmi has writ­ten about his expe­ri­ence too. Times Cycle to Work is orga­niz­ing this event on Sun­day. Do show your sup­port and par­tic­i­pate — lots of fun stuff for the kids too! And RunnerGirlsIndia […]

A few days ago, a cyclist was turned away from the Leela Hotel’s main gate to a side park­ing lot on the road. He was there to attend a con­fer­ence when his “hum­ble” cycle did not pass the “high secu­rity stan­dards” of the hotel. He refused, of course, (even I would!) the secu­rity guard’s suggestion […]

Had quite a bad expe­ri­ence with makemytrip.com today. I booked a ticket online for a bus to Chen­nai in the morn­ing. After the pay­ment was done, the screen blanked out and I didn’t get a con­fir­ma­tion for my ticket. Then I receive an SMS with my book­ing ID and a mes­sage that my credit card […]

Eas­ily a place I could go back to : again and again. Fort Kochi. Wan­der around. Soak in the sights and sounds. Famil­iar cor­ners. Tashi cafe, the fish­ing nets and the synagogue.

The Tour of Nil­giris mean­ders through the famed Blue Moun­tains of South India immers­ing you in the stun­ning land­scape, bio-diversity, cul­ture and her­itage of Kar­nataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Started in 2007, this is a series of quar­terly lec­tures this year on sci­ence, tech­nol­ogy and the inter­net in India. The lec­tures, under the ban­ner of the Yahoo! Big Thinkers India series, bring together acad­e­mia, sci­en­tists, the cor­po­rate world and the media. The speak­ers are acclaimed experts from the Yahoo! Inter­na­tional team. They bring with them […]

On July 24/25th, we headed out to Coorg and Wayanad with Mud­dy­Boots (a new adven­ture com­pany) for a spice coun­try cycling trail. Here is an account of the trip.