Wish you a very Happy Holi!

Happy Holi to colour our lives, our dreams and to colour each other with hopes and joys! 
This year I sent sms to all my friends and family saying Happy Holi. And I wished the rest over phone. I usually don’t send such wishes. I usually don’t even call people. But lately life has taught me [...]

Things I wanna do before I turn 30

This time I didn’t make any new year resolutions or celebrations. But circumstances pushed me to dream harder. To make bigger plans. I don’t see much gay or fun in recent present so making long term plans. Less than five years are left before I turn 30, and there are few things I wanna do/have [...]

Top Shots

Be it top IMDB movie rating, Booker Prize for Literary Achievements, or Nobel prize for various disciplines, they all mean the same thing to me. More masala for timepass and information. I watched The Dark Knight after reading its 9.1 and was amazed by the movie. Its diffcult to express how fascinated I was by [...]

Girl Thing

I have many friends, thanks to the non-tech education I got myself into, who feel very strongly about gender discrimination. These are all girls. As a matter of fact, the male-female ratio in education sector is reverse of the same in the tech sector. These friends of mine are highly gender sensitive and protest at [...]

Hampi Adventure

Ok, I got to admit the place sucks! Oops… let me re-phrase. The place sucks for everyone who is not a photographer. Still few eyebrows raised? mmmm.. I would re-re-phrase. The place sucks for those who are not photographers and who make the terrible mistake of hiring a guide. Guided tour is what everyone tells [...]

Development

This post is being written mostly to help me frame some questions which are floating in my head in an unorganized fashion. So if you don’t understand even a word of it, please don’t mind.
Basically I am in that phase in life where “information”, for me, is knowledge and beyond. I am a sucker of [...]

The unusual guide

Technically Mr Negi wasn’t our guide. As in, he didn’t take us up the narrow path on to a trek. But he guided us to whatever hiking/treking we did in Narkanda. He works with the government mountaineering and sports cell in Narkanda which is a branch of the Manali headquarters. It was due to his valuable suggestions that we could [...]

Timepass books

As per my speculation for future decades of my life, formed by looking at sample data from many-many lives around me (i have huge extended family with 12 uncles n aunts and I am the youngest in my generation at my mother’s side), I believe the best time to invest on books and music is [...]

Leftovers

Yesterday, I was finally able to take my folks to an acclaimed play, “Class of ‘84“, staged at IHC, enacted by all small n big screen celebrities. During most of the play and in interval I was only trying to figure out where I have seen those people before, obviously except Rajit Kapoor who was [...]

In a temple above the town.

(Finally found the courage to write this down. Below is the travelogue of my stay in Naggar, a little town near Manali in Himachal, with a family which was running a local NGO – Ananda Society.)
It was the most difficult journey I have underwent so far, including the 10 hrs long treacherous trek to Hemkund [...]