I’m not paid enough – Life on the streets of Delhi
A friend from London who was touring India told me once, ‘Life is easy in India. Everything is so inexpensive.’ I looked at him in mild surprise and asked him to give me a few days to show that Delhi wasn’t an easy city to live in. As he turned to go, I saw some...
Travel is all about new eyes and not new landscapes
The first time I was in London was sometime in the mid-nineties and then for the next three years the city became an annual celebration. There was then a gap of a few years and the London happened again… and then again a couple of years later. I remember a friend asking, ‘Don’t you get...
Economics of life is all about saving and not saving
Yes, we are intrinsically and genetically embedded into both the art of saving as well as not saving. Saving and not saving are both virtues. We gave away smiles and shared goodwill… and saved some money every month and whether it was deposited in the bank, PPF, or FDs bought, this saving also resulted in...
You can close your eyes to the reality but not to memories
Travel brings out the best in us And we know each other without a fuss The scenes and the sounds come back Giving life a lovable track And at some future date we always do Go back in time to live life through Those times when we explored together In hospitable and inhospitable weather The...
On Travel
Travel is all about the music and poetry of exploration… every time you move out of home and navigate safely through strange countries and stranger cities, you experience an uplifting peppy feeling that refreshes you. This is the sort of feeling that I had when I keyed in these short two-line rhymes that had travel...
The Making of Durga Idols During Devi Paksha
Durga Puja is no longer something that excites only one community nor is the celebration limited to a few regions… the fervour is the same all over the country. Delhi now probably has more than a thousand puja pandals. But this post isn’t about the pandals… it is about the making of Durga idols and...
Only we can save our environment
Only we can save our environment Have you noticed how the two words ‘on men’ are hidden inside the word ‘environment’? The word ‘men’ here represents mankind and what they are trying to say is that it is all of us together who form the heart of our environment. It is, therefore, up to...
The backlash of an opportunity
The backlash of an opportunity My existence is no less than the life of characters in a thriller because like them, I was born the day my mortal creator decided that I was to be born. But where characters in a novel get authors to patronise them, nurture them and nourish them and they...
Every journey begins with two words – “Let’s Go!”
Yes, I know people who keep reading on cities and countries and after months they sigh and mutter, ‘Let me do some more reading… I’m still not prepared to take this journey.’ This is ridiculous. One doesn’t really need to know and expect everything that a new place has to offer… let it take you...
Dubai – thirst for more!
There are more people who claim to know Dubai from their impressions in the transit lounge of the airport than those who finally exit it to enter this city of souks, burjs, and a lot of happening stuff found along the creek and in the surrounding sand. Generally a lot of people visit Dubai and...
What do you see?
Two kettles? Just two kettles? Is that all that you see? You don’t see two generations looking in different directions? Don’t you see rural life and an urban perspective? Or the tussle between machine-made and man-made? Don’t you see a story trying to come out? Or a poem simmering inside? Or maybe just the excitement...
Re-shaped, Re-formed, and Re-aligned to travel
“The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of these technologies unlocks an incredible opportunity to connect everything together in a new way and is dramatically transforming the way we live and work,” writes Marc Benioff and most of us will agree...
