Category: Us people

  • travel trivia.

     If you thought the tense travels drew a curtain down with boarding the train, well alighting was another story. The train chugged into Thivim just visualize a scene with the sun just rising, the mist beginning to dissolve, the platform looking like a staircase that emerged through the mist. A blue  glad Konkan railway caterer…

  • A city moans

    Just back from Mumbai, I left for Mumbai the day BalaSaheb passed away, being aware of the fact.  My daughters were a bit worried. My coach Gopal was very confident that people respected Balasaheb too much to misbehave and the town would be peaceful. The bus driver refused to enter the city Mumbai, I mean…

  • Kashmir News from Samir

    Originally posted on The Sameer Yasir Work(s). : Sameer Yasir The haze had covered the northern edge of Tchahl village. A little away from a cricket ground, three men in their 60s, sat on a nearby rock patiently looking at Atta Mohammad Khan, the gravedigger. A few policemen were watching him dig a grave for…

  • New brag-rat on the block

    Once upon a time, in mythology, there were beautiful damsels, enchantress who diverted the heroes from their chosen path. The Indian mythology called them Apsara’s they were delegated by the Lord of the immortals, to deal with spiritual quest of people or if anything threatened the throne of Indra the Lord of the immortals. Instead…

  • Janmashtami

    It is Krishna janmashtami at my hometown. Suddenly I see our elaborate family network and our roots in place. My  near seventy mother has donned her super cape, and make all the goodies that are to be made, the 5 types of laddoo, and chakkuli and the works. She has then put them into the…

  • begging for attention

    When the railways entered  the Konkan region, i remember my great uncle PN Ananthakrishna Rao who had told us, that don’t think railway will be bring any benefits, the adverse effect is greater. With increase connectivity the coastal towns have lost their greatest pride, we had no beggars, whenever we saw beggars we could be…