Category Archives: Travel

London Vs New York – an Indian perspective

A careless, opinionated and utterly pointless comparison of the two cities ! The Queen and Politeness If you have a queen, you have got to learn to bow ;-) Londoners are generally very polite and well mannered. They can hate you and still manage to be polite. A New Yorker would have a hard time [...]

The Lake District road trip

Narrative Mode: Third-person omniscient When four friends got together Mr. Todkar couldn’t resist a road trip. He had long wanted to take one, ever since he had arrived in UK, but the opportunity had never presented itself. His dream had finally come true. Lake District he thought would be the perfect place, but with only [...]

5 days in Cochin, Kerala

Day 1 The flight to Cochin was estimated at a little over two hours. It started off brilliantly with an aerial view of the Bandra-Worli sea link. It however, refused to end. The merry-go-round over the Indian peninsula was in its third hour. Finally, we landed, in Calicut. We waited as the overpriced airplane cookies [...]

Fancy Shakespeare as your lunch buddy?

So, lunch breaks coming up and you’re going to get together with your regular set of buddies and bash your bosses. Again. Some people, especially bosses, seem gifted with an endless pool of bad qualities, don’t they? However, as exciting as that may sound, why don’t you take a break and watch a play instead [...]

Des fleurs @ Parc du Thabor

The spring of 2008 was a pretty one, and this was particularly true of le parc du Thabor. When I moved to Rennes on the 28th of December 2007, I wasn’t quite chirpy. The city hadn’t disappointed, for it had the classic European Christmas postcard look I grew up with as a child. But I [...]

FREE ENTRY – TATE MODERN

The last week of October 2009 was blessed with an Indian summer. I’m on my way for a walk along the Victoria Embankment all the way up to Westminster Abbey – for not venturing out on a bright day like this is nothing short of criminal in London. Starting at Goswell Road, I walked down [...]

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