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A Palacio by the River

By ⋅ April 20, 2011 ⋅ 4 comments

Come away delighted after a visit to Palá­cio do Deão, a restored 200+ year old Por­tuguese man­sion in Quepem, Goa.

Chai and conversations

By ⋅ April 10, 2011 ⋅ 23 comments

Bangalore’s options to lovers of tea — Chai Point and Chaipatty

Exploring an alternative lifestyle

By ⋅ April 1, 2011 ⋅ 9 comments

A visit to Navadar­shanam, a com­mu­nity that inves­ti­gates eco­log­i­cal and spir­i­tual alter­na­tives to the mod­ern way of liv­ing and thinking

Garage sale to Support “Tin Sheets”

By ⋅ March 25, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Two years ago, Ekta Mit­tal, co-founder, Maraa and Yashaswini Raghu­nan­dan, a film maker and artist started work­ing on their film “Behind the Tin Sheets”, doc­u­ment­ing the lives of work­ers build­ing the Ban­ga­lore Metro.

The house on St Marks Road

By ⋅ January 27, 2011 ⋅ 17 comments

Amidst high rise build­ings, swanky stores and restau­rants, this aban­doned house located in prime prop­erty on St Marks road is bound to grab your atten­tion when you walk past. In the shade of some lovely old trees, the house stands tired, bro­ken, and falling apart – paint­ing a rather sad pic­ture. We were hav­ing break­fast at […]

Into the light!

By ⋅ January 19, 2011 ⋅ 12 comments

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 […]

Brevet launch ride tomorrow!

By ⋅ December 4, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The launch of the Ban­ga­lore Brevets ride will hap­pen on Sun­day, Decem­ber 5. This is a launch ride for a series of brevet rides that will be held in the city next year as qual­i­fiers to the pres­ti­gious Paris-Brest-Paris event.

Entranced by an ancient art

By ⋅ October 15, 2010 ⋅ 12 comments

I still remem­ber the show we watched dur­ing a trip to Ker­ala last year. It was at Thekkady, while we were out explor­ing, when we saw a sign say­ing adver­tis­ing a Kalari per­for­mance in the evening. We decided to ven­ture in. Kalar­i­pay­attu is derived from the words Kalari — which means “place, thresh­ing floor, or […]

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