Category: on the move

  • A Happy meal.

    A meal when you are hungry is a gift no matter where you eat it. sukhadia’s open vada pav This actually reminds me of a tale, when the Mogul emperor Akbar he went on a hunt. He was hungry and tired, when he and his minister Birbal came across a woodcutters hut. The woodcutter shared…

  • chaikhana

    chaikhana the tea houses along the legendary silk route Mixed Appetizer Platter @ Silk Route If I were to own a restraurant I would call it chaikhana, in honour of the tea houses along the legendary silk route from china to middle East. These chaikhana’s historically offered weary travellers tea and meal before the advent…

  • Travel Lessons Learned the Hard Way

    RR Train, Great Britain (LOC) Everyone talks of spur of the moment and spontaneity, adventure. That’s all crap and nonsense nothing is relaxing as a well planned trip. I learnt it the hard way. Travelling with my father meant every booking, every ticket in place. Plan B in case Plan A had a problem. The…

  • a travel plan

    International travel versus space travel The Pagoda on Osterley Lake (Main Entrance) A free trip to space or unlimited free international travel for life. Space travel is novel, adventurous but it is still unorganized. The travel suit is cumbersome, and uninteresting.  food is all in capsules and semi digested form there is no food…

  • Where is my Mama

    a Journey to Bombay. Southland Coastal Road I must have been eight years old, it was our first long bus ride all of 24hours, from Udupi to Bombay. My mother, brother, our neighbor Mrs. Kiriti and her two daughters Jayanthi and Jayashree. it was six of us. Our mother of course had cooked and carried…

  • country roads take me home

    This was the days when I was a junior doctor at SDME Dharwad, We had a student from the Mundgod Tibetan settlement. A soft-spoken well-behaved girl. But she did the forbidden that is she fell in love with an Indian boy. I met her couple of years later; she was no more the exuberant girl…