Big brother’s watching!
How dare you dance in Bangalore? says enraged Big Brother (BB).
If Big Brother’s been watching over us wayward citizens in Bangalore, can he but not make an appearance in Chennai?
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Glorious Gokarna
If I knew it was such a beautiful place, I would definitely have gone earlier. Having spent 2 short but glorious days discovering the beaches of the Karwar stretch this weekend, I can only hope to go back there someday for a longer stay.
Rain, rain go away
A few years ago, I remember being stranded in office during the height of the Mumbai monsoons. Reading this account, I was transported to that day. There were about 12 of us. We had a small office at Fort. This was before we shifted to our larger office in Mahim. We started playing dumb charades at about 7 in the evening to keep ourselves entertained. When we heard that the trains had stopped, most of us gave up any attempt to try and get out of office. Some braved the odds and took taxis from Fort to their far off homes. Though it turned out to be a really expensive proposition, since most of them had to shell out heaps of money. In fact, finding cabs under the circumstances were also next to impossible. The best thing, as we discovered, is to stay put wherever you are. And that’s exactly what we did. It turned out to be a memorable night. Ordered fish curry rice from a restaurant nearby. All of us sat around the …
Wet, wet weekend!
So a gang of 19 of us made it to Honnemardu for the weekend. We spent most of the time in water. And getting wet even out of it since it poured and poured and poured. Came back to Bangalore on Monday morning with lots of wet clothes and a tan 🙂 The folks who made it: Adel Arnab Chander Dheepak Nithya Kavitha Kripa Suman Sathish Retisaint Vazu Anjana Anuja Ganesh Roopa Tulsi Sathish Senthil Roopa and me enjoy the warm waters of Honnemardu The whole gang (Pics courtesy: Kavitha) A lovely trip. Great weather – rainy, but fun! An eventful night camping in a deserted island. Swimming back from the island to base camp. Canoeing. Rowing. Capsizing. Loads of rice and sambar. Climbing, slipping, falling… Lovely bunch of people. What more can one ask for on a weekend out of town? Pictures and write-up will follow later as usual 🙂
Market scenes
Red is one of my favourite colours – vibrant, energetic and peppy. If there’s one thing I like about Indian markets, it’s the plethora of colours you see around you.
Colours of India
While at Yeshvantpur market yesterday, Vasu, one of the Bangalore shutterbuggers, commented that there is no place as colourful as India. Just take a walk through a busy Indian market and there’s proof all around you. Women in colourful sarees. Onions. Garlic. Chillies. Ginger. Cauliflowers. Brinjals. Capsicum. Banana carts. Peanuts. Piles of multi-coloured flowers – red and white roses, yellow marigolds… Buckets, mugs and assorted paraphernelia – they probably come in every colour except black! Chicken. Mutton. Beef. Fish. Prawns. Silver utensils of every shape. Spoons. Handles. Ladles. Sponges. Kitchen knick knacks. Piles of gulal in red, blue, yellow, orange… Chips made from everything you can imagine (not just potatoes!) Dhania. Curry patta. Every green saag you can imagine. Watermelons. Papayas. Kids with bright smiles. And the tri-colour flag (in all sizes) displayed everywhere. On top of buildings, cycles, rickshaws, trucks, motorbikes, cars. Even the vegetable and fruit vendor carts had little flags flying merrily in the wind. There were six of us who ventured out in the morning with our cameras – Vasu, Lavannya, …