So as Ralph Waldo Emerson says “The Earth laughs in flowers”, a glimpse of Kaas might make you believe it is ROFLing with glee. (For those not familiar with the word, it means- rolling on the floor laughing). It is also known as Kaas Pathar, mainly because it is otherwise barren because of porous laterite […]

In the evenings, the tall coconut trees on the coast sway in the wind. At nights, the moonlight ripples on the sea, shimmering and dancing in a wild abandon. But it is the mornings that are the best – a sky of peaches and cream, deep blue sea, and the cold sand on the beach, […]

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. […]

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 […]