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  • clock of fragrance.

    This was a very strange place for this smell. Not one expected at a three star hotels. The smell of a rice  granary. Most of the traditional houses along the west coast had this “agrashala” or store room. The smell of the days of long stretches of holidays that suddenly galloped to a finish. The…

  • soft and warm sandalwood.

    The other day I visited an aromatherapy centre, the healer had a vial of sandalwood oil. The soft warm woody and balsamic fragrance. Yet it is a standalone fragrance. It evokes mixed responses. A pleasant one as it reminds me of two important people in my life, my grandmother and my father. Remember the hitopadesha…

  • The Whiff of lost friend.

    My closest friends are books, in the human world it used to be Anupa. Jarod Kintz wrote,”flowers and fear are a lot alike, for one flowers and fear have a distinct smell, and two I’m currently trying to grow both in my garden.” Anupa my friend and I sat on the rocks of Manipal, they…

  • RIP–The Telegraph

    http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/telegram-stop-end-stop-392148 “Taar,” the moustached man  called out. Wearing an ill-fitting brown pant, and a shirt a cross bag and a brown cap a left over from the british civil services.  He was a must in every hindi movie. It created melodrama, the twist in the tale, sometimes even the key knowledge. I   remember as a…

  • Roll to Rajasthan

    Franklin Templeton Investmentspartnered the TEDxGateway Mumbai in December 2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Dn868I8RQ#at=370 listening to Cynthia passionately dedicated to the cause of water management. I am impressed. I am also taken back to the days of seventies, when we went to our mother’s  ancestral village for our summer sojourn  water was an issue, of course we kids never…

  • entrepreneur

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1iWhljEbTE Franklin Templeton Investmentspartnered the TEDxGateway Mumbai in December 2012. What makes an entrepreneur? In his book innovation and entrepreneurship: Practise and principles Peter.F.Drucker says, entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory see change as normal as indeed as healthy and it sees the major task in society and especially in…