Train Travel

20
May

Travel or Travelling – something after food, that everyone loves to talk about. To me it means a lot of things, Nostalgia, love, hate, passion. As a child, travel used to be by train from Bombay to Baroda regularly for vacations – with the passion of being able to look out of the windows, guess [...]

Aren’t we a nation of Hypocrites?

16
May

I tweeted ‘We are a nation of Hypocrites’ and received immediate responses some in favour, some against and also telling me speak for your self I am a hypocrite, when it suits me; just like everyone else. This is not to say that other countries, citizens are not, they are, the degree matters a lot. [...]

Organised vs Unorganised Food Delivery

30
April

Assumptions : Lokhandwala/Oshiwara/Four Bungalows area; Organised means chain or multiple restaurants, whilst unorganised means standalone I have been living in this area for a long time and have been ordering food for as long. Earlier there were just stand alone restaurants, then the organised chains moved in. Some delivered, whilst some did not, at first [...]

Amreekan Desi

29
April

A chance Tweet some days back with [AmreekanDesi] about a completely non related matter and he volunteered to share an advanced copy of his soon to be released book. It had slipped my mind, however within the next couple of days the book promptly arrived from the publishers. The kindle on charge, meeting in far [...]

Activism begins at home

29
April

In this flurry of activism from December, I had asked a Question and did not receive too many replies. A substantial number of ‘Celebrities’ aka ‘Public figures’ had agreed to continue their work, force things, BUT the unfortunate reality – ‘If we are directly affected, then we shall rant, rave, give sound bytes’ then every [...]

Imperfect Mr. Right

22
April

Disclaimer: I may be prejudiced reviewing this, because the author is practically our God child. I first heard about this unnamed book some 4 years ago at a breakfast place where Aparna Ruchi Shakti B50 amongst others were there. The excitement petered out after a while and Shakti claimed writer’s block. AND Love got unblocked, [...]