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 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 […]