Tag: Goa

Just Deserts.

Yesterday was world awareness to stop desertification and drought day. I do not want to lose our focus by working on the world statistics. As far as India is concerned we are at 30% of the country being threatened by droughts. The threat of the drought has moved southwards. There has been a 90% increase…

June 19, 2019
Three Litfest and Blogfest

“Mom this is my last year in Hyderabad,” She said, Jay has this effect on me she can get me to do anything. “Mom HLF is amazing and fun” Second input from her. Anyway as I could catch up with her I decided to attend the Hyderabad Literary festival believe me it was fun. There…

January 29, 2018
Naraka-Chaturdashi

Today is Narakachaturdashi, The organic nature of this festival doesn’t cease to amaze me. Growing we heard the story of Narakasura who captured 1600 women, made them his slaves eventually Krishna the Yadava rescued them. The legend also as it that Narakasura could only be killed by his mother. As Deepavali approaches kids begin collecting trash like old clothes, and old news…

October 18, 2017
Athiti Dev(il)obhava

Athithi devo bhava… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5Bq_eBlYM Really? What about the responsibility of tourists, nobody talks about that, not even the effervescent travel bloggers. Yesterday we went Basilica Bon Jesus at Old Goa, the place was swarming with tourists. The guidelines to tourists are placed all over the Basilica, “Do not photograph people” being the most prominent one.…

May 15, 2017
Community Radio

Travelling by the KSRTC Rajhansa I heard a language I had not heard in years, familiar, yet unfamiliar one got the drift of the language it was Byaari the language of the local Muslims. Which my friends Shameem and Naseem spoke. And it was being aired on the community radio. The young twenty something kid…

March 7, 2017
On NH66

I love driving down the stretch from Goa to Udupi. On this stretch despite the dug up roads, crazy diversions and sliced old houses, which to me are slicing up of an old way of life there are some salient point. One of them is a small eatery which is tucked in a village called…

January 2, 2017