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Tag: incredible india

  • 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…

  • festivals ahead.– ready reckoner

    With Navarathri and Diwali round the corner how many of you are getting palpitations? I am so this time I have pulled out an ancient cut out I had from the Savvy magazine. Diwali  is basically a family time for togetherness and not an emotional and physical roller coaster happening. There are somethings one can do, Finish…

  • we.. the people..corruption.

    Our No counts but do we say NO? We the people the sovereign democratic republic, are we sovereign? Well I guess the staff of Rajadhani seem to think so. I got into Rajdhani at udupi and got off at Margao, boarding was at 7 am, when I entered the train, the sheets of the previous…

  • Holiday Traditions

    Holidays are fixed sometimes by the constitution and sometimes by cultural traditions when routine work is suspended. Traditions are customs and stories handed down from generation to generation. As a child the greatest of holiday tradition was the one that arrived bang on the middle of rains, the birth of Lord Krishna celebrated in my…

  • 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…

  • cow day

    The bay area behenji’s are here with their kids for a holiday. Their husband has finished up the three weeks leave and is working from Bangalore/Pune/home/or returned to Uncle Sam’s land. The behenji’s are sharing India with their kids, the n relatives to be met at Bangalore, Chennai or udupi or urban India. Then it…