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. [...]
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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 [...]
It suddenly occurs to me that I’ve been blogging for as long that I’ve been married. As with many other things, it was my dear friend AM who introduced me to the wonderful world of the blogsphere in November 2005. Like her, I first began blogging to practice on my craft as a writer. We [...]
I have never understood infidelity, Or the balance of the middle path. The truth of love, Coated in the convenience of deceit. Where lies the courage in breaking all the rules, When you agree to live by all of them? Who drills a death-hole into the foundation of an enclosure, while building its walls? Is [...]
Yesterday I happened to see an old blog post from AM that talked about the causes that she would consider campaign about (if she had been the campaiging type). This got me thinking about causes that would move me enough to make me want to live or die for them. While I am not a the ‘campaigning’ kind [...]
A loophole loving nation?
Posted: May 31, 2011 in Bangalore, Life and LivingTags: Bangalore, India, traffic
It was just another morning on my way to work. I was at the strategic left turn into the industrial area that is home to my office and a long list of other international technology companies. The traffic clogged intersection usually has most of the bikers getting onto the narrow adjacent mud road and beating [...]
Whether you are married, living in or single, there’s something that every woman should never forget. You are the captain of your own ship and the master of your own destiny. The responsibility for your ship lies with you. You hand the rudder into another’s own hands at your own peril. The first thing that [...]
