The Hauz Khas I was told to visit was all shops, designer outlets and eclectic array of restaurants, cafes and bars. That’s why I went there, for tea and then to meet a friend for dinner. The sheer density of shops startled me – neither did it have the cramped quirkiness of an actual bazaar, nor did it have the feel of a nice up-market mall. … Continue reading hauz khas – heritage for you and me
the joy in colour can never take away from the romance in black & white. presenting shimla coloured with shades of black and white with a lot of greys. Continue reading shimla: it’s all grey there!
joy is… … seeing the taj mahal for the first time … that smile which took many jokes to make its shy appearance joy is… being told you are looking directly at mt. everest joy is… wild mushrooms after the first rains and the smell of green! joy is… that blog post that breaks all your previous records joy is… the innocence in a child joy is… a new … Continue reading weekly photo challenge: joy is…
yes, i went to goa again. it’s still just two times in 2013 (yes, i know we’ve moved on to 2014 but i’m still writing about the year that’s gone by) this trip was a work+pleasure trip. 3 days of work, where i walked around the old parts of goa to write the walking tour of those areas, then i stayed on in panjim for … Continue reading discovering goa in fontainhas
a photo post in response to the weekly photo challenge: let there be light! light comes in many forms… from the glimmering brass valakku my grandma lights everyday to the black stone diyas outside temples. from modern streetlights to those that exude old-world charm. from cities dressed up in light to tunnels that aren’t all dark! light. creates. light. dailypost: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/11/29/photo-challenge-lights/ Continue reading let there be light!
i love faces. i love the stories in them. the startled ones. the nervous twitches. the open faces. the stoic faces. some faces draw you in, some make you work and with some you are always the distant outsider. her life lives on her face. the past leads to the present, intertwined on one face. it emerges at every corner and shows you her life. that … Continue reading inside faces – what are the stories they tell?
there has been a lot going on and in a good way…actually great way! lots of writing, lots of traveling and lots of writing again. sadly, my blog seems very ignored! but this challenge by dailypost seems like a good way to get started on the writing again… focus is something i have struggled with all my life. what i want to do. what i want … Continue reading the weekly photo challenge: fiddling with the focus
yazdani bakery is an irani cafe. it was opened by meherwan zend in 1953, a parsi baker. the building was originally a japanese bank, but then later sold off. run by the third generation now, it had about it a quaintness… like all irani cafes it seems like a lack of maintenance, things just seem to lie about, as is… and as always was! i don’t … Continue reading irani cafes of mumbai: yazdani bakery, fort
mazgaon lies hidden, tucked away… the new eastern freeway that runs right over it on a tall, thick pillars alienating itself from the people below. almost reminding me the movie cars, when a new highway bypasses a town… mazgaon has been forgotten for a long time. we seem to want to live and be present in the latest hip and happening suburb, forgetting the past … Continue reading weekly photography challenge: the masterpiece is mazgaon
a beautiful, stone church, the largest synagogue in asia, a 100-yr old christian settlement and a restored palladian style museum… 6 hours of walking around by’KH’ulla & ma’Z’gaon two areas in south mumbai… or ‘bombay’ as the taxi drivers would say. as that is bombay, the rest of us, live outside ‘bombay’! explanations, thoughts, musings and pictures coming up… right now, am too tired to do … Continue reading meandering in by’KH’ulla and ma’Z’gaon – mumbai
merry to go around 