It was THE lane with the most beautiful house in the world. It was THE lane where I wanted to live when I was a six-year-old girl. The lane hadn’t changed much over the last 30 years, except for two new apartment blocks. I was visiting one of them (the red garish one) on Househunt, Episode 2. [...]
Archive for September, 2011
House hunting: Episode 2
Posted: September 15, 2011 in Bangalore, Life and LivingTags: Bangalore, house for rent, house hunting, real estate, rental
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Posted: September 10, 2011 in Life and LivingTags: and traffic jam., bad traffic, drive safely, driving, maruti, rainy evening, traffic jams, woman driver
It was a routine drive back home from evening after work. But an hour and ten minutes later, I was slightly short of being half-way home. The drive back usually takes me just an hour on the worst of days. But this had been an evening of rain and unusually bad traffic jams all the [...]
House Hunting: Episode 1
Posted: September 8, 2011 in Bangalore, Life and Living, UncategorizedTags: Bangalore, house for rent, house hunting for, real estate
It’s been 12 years since I last went house hunting on my own, and it’s interesting to see how the market has changed…and I have too. The first time I went house hunting, I had just turned 21. So I didn’t ask for too much—just a room with a view and my own independence. In [...]
Incredible India
Posted: September 7, 2011 in Life and Living, UncategorizedTags: Christian, Hindu, India, Muslim, pluralism
A couple of days ago, a friend posted an interesting picture on Facebook. The picture in question showed a Muslim family in Ahmedabad, dropping their son to a fancy dress competition, where he played the role of Lord Krishna. My friend posted that we should take pride in being Indian because these things (that might [...]
