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 […]

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 […]

Being in a room with around 15 women, all called “Anita”, turned out to be quite a novel expe­ri­ence. Like we all joked, it was one occa­sion when we didn’t have to remem­ber any names! This hap­pened in Feb­ru­ary 2010 dur­ing a trip to Delhi and Gur­gaon. A rather diverse bunch, brought together by Delhi based […]

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 […]

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 […]

A few adven­tur­ous and cre­ative friends have got­ten together to bring some sun­shine into your oth­er­wise ignored or empty bal­cony or ter­race! The folks at My Sunny Bal­cony (MSB) can sug­gest how to trans­form an empty for­lorn space into a ver­i­ta­ble green heaven…

While trav­el­ling in Kalimpong last year, sit­ting in a local café hav­ing an evening snack I came across a rather nice look­ing glossy travel mag­a­zine. I was rather sur­prised when I saw that it was pub­lished out of Sikkim. Both the con­tent and the pho­tographs were of bet­ter qual­ity than a lot of other travel […]

When Shankar called say­ing he was going to the Wildlife Res­cue and Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (WRRC) and would I like to go along, I jumped at the oppor­tu­nity. The last time I went was with Usha and it’s been a while. A cou­ple of reha­bil­i­tated jack­als in their own enclo­sure It’s always amaz­ing to see Saleem at […]