I wriggled my way past hand-driven rickshawalas running alongside fancy cars and my fellow path walkers.  We all seemed to share the same road, battling for the same space.  The whiff of freshly made mishtis, the sweet smell of kheer, the aroma of succulent kebabs, and the essence of saffron in Biryiani, were like […]

Hot summer days make all of us long for the beach. There’s this burning desire to let the cool water cleanse you of the perspiration dripping down your skin. A few feet away, the sea sparkled, glittered, and beckoned me. The beach at Kashid is soft, like a newborn’s tender skin, the kind where I […]

The sun was beating down on us as the driver parked the car. “It’s hot,” my sister complained as we alighted and my mother threw her a long-suffering look. I had to concur with her on her statement. It was indeed very hot, but I was in no mood to rile my mother any further. […]

The first part of this post can be found here.“No!” my friend wailed as she read the newspapers, “Manneys is closing down!” “What?” I thundered, leaning over to snatch the newspaper from her. There were similar groans of disappointment in our general vicinity as the news spread. Sadness could not even cover the depth of […]

It was in late August last year that I fell in love with Pune again. Being a quintessential Punekar, I have – nay, I am honour-bound to have an obsessive love for my city. Though Pune is a city of traditions, it constantly throws up new surprises, enchanting its denizens, and inevitably bolstering their immovable […]