I have a spe­cial place for Tibet in my heart — espe­cially since one of my dear­est friends is a Tibetan. And I think that it’s quite a strug­gle for Tibetans today try­ing to find their iden­tity wher­ever they are in the world. It’s not easy when your home­land is no longer yours. Or that […]

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 had been […]

It’s the fes­ti­val of lights — one I asso­ciate some great child­hood memories. 

Grow­ing up, we had fun with our share of crack­ers and other noise cre­at­ing diver­sions. The crack­ers for­tu­nately no longer seem attrac­tive and we stopped indulging in them quite long ago — besides being pol­lut­ing (both air and noise) some­how it doesn’t seem […]

The prac­tice of the Surya Namaskar touches all aspects : body, mind and soul. I par­tic­u­larly like this exer­cise as it’s a great way to stretch parts of the body which nor­mally don’t get much action. :-p

The prob­lem: Over the last 4 years, Janet and her vol­un­teers at treesfor­free have planted 12,896 trees across Ban­ga­lore City to restore the van­ish­ing tree cover. All in an old Maruti car. Now the car has bro­ken down. And the plant­ing has stopped. But the tree felling con­tin­ues… and with it, the global warm­ing, failed […]

So it was only May end/beginning of June that I was down with a cold and got these use­ful home reme­dies. I’ve barely got over that bout (or so it seems!) and I am down with a cold again. Gosh, how I hate them! 
I was going through a recent Dec­can Her­ald where I found these useful […]

So a year or so ago, I was pre­sented with a Her­cules bicy­cle. It’s a really reli­able cycle and stood me in good stead over quite a few long trips that I made. Of course, by the end of the trip, every mus­cle of mine would be strained, but at least I was get­ting some […]

Of course we all know what hap­pens on Ban­ga­lore roads when it rains. But I was the least pre­pared for the events to unfold that night. After din­ner with friends at Indi­rana­gar I set off towards Kora­man­gala. It had been rain­ing for around an hour but I didn’t really real­ize how bad things were out­side.
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