In my per­fect world, I will be sur­rounded by a lot of teapots of vary­ing shapes and sizes. There will be cups of tea in dif­fer­ent flavours wait­ing to be tasted, tea strain­ers, tea pots, ket­tles and the intox­i­cat­ing smell of the dark brew everywhere.

The Aero Show is on in Ban­ga­lore right now and it’s worth a visit. I’ve never gone for the air show and I am glad I made it this time. The pyro tech­nics of the air­planes made my heart stop for a moment. Lots and lots of dif­fer­ent kinds of planes on dis­play and the […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tea hap­pens to be my favourite bev­er­age. Over the years, I’ve dis­posed off the need for milk (and sugar in most cases) to get the real taste of tea. I read this yes­ter­day while brows­ing through a book and liked it so much, I made a note of it: “Tea is quiet and it takes […]

Into day 2 of my Fort Kochi break. Chilled out a lit­tle on day 1 and walked around a bit. I had a list of things on my agenda but decided that I wasn’t going to push myself! Today, I had a few inter­est­ing con­ver­sa­tions includ­ing one with some­one who has been involved with maintaining […]