*”Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast,” said the Queen*
the ambition of care
“If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a...
Adliya’s Wee Wonderland a.k.a Market 338
Every so often, every couple of years marks my return to the place of my birth...(it's not what you think...)...Bahrain. And a lovely place lay in store for me this year... Adliya has always been the place where my folks (gypsies in spirit) moved into, back and forth,...
The year that was ‘Sustainable Design Principles’
I don't do bucketlists but this year I managed to fit in the one thing I have been meaning to do forever now- teaching . So there is the the Master's program of Institute of Environmental Architecture, Rachana Sansad, Prabhadevi, Mumbai and I decided to get my hands...
The return…
So this is how my day began...I was instantly reminded of that advert of the Bajaj Avenger, where the tag line is 'Feels like God!!'.. On a Harley Davidson...I must say it was an ACE-awesome start to the day... Though I am not one for these toys and especially since I...
In the company of the great and noble…
The past few week has been trying for many reasons: the less said on them the better. But in the madness of it all, I thought I should pay my respects to the best roommates one can ever ask for: Henry, George & Arthur. They are cats and not everyone's cup of...
The Bake Collective
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. Khalil Gibran Food has always been a central to the quest of making money whether be it at a carnival, fest, restaurant or just a regular guy trying...
the end of culture means the start of new…
Are we looking at Kalyug? The time when no evil or no good prevails. It is hard to say but we keep muttering 'this is the best of all times and the worst of all times’: Somewhere in between denial and acceptance of where as a human race we are headed. Not really the...
The Pious and their ways…
A seemingly Goan/Anglo Indian/ Mangalorean/Christian lady came into the lobby of this bank I was in and was curious about the ganesh statue. She went closer to touch him. As she sought the elevator,the receptionist called out to her in front of everyone n announced...
Stories of Exclusion
Beginning of Navratri Yesterday morning, as I passed Powai lake. The view that beholded us was that of tonsured men ready to dip themselves with autos scurrying around. This may have been due to the navratri about to set in. When one looked closely at the collective...
the convenience of patriotism
On this day, eons ago we became a nation free. Just that the ones who ruled us took leave and we were left to our devices. To our own devices we were left...we were cut and divided up...as a nation, we were subdivided... And then the flag comes up, we sing the lines...
when money = power and status = power, thats a whole lotta power…
The one building that made me so-so very very angry was that Ambani building, made to cater to the whims of 4 persons. What do they get out of living that way? some would say he has earned the 'right' to live that way...on what account? When there are many in this...
voice of dissent
Lately, I have been quiet. With no real attachment and cause to fight for. To move a stone an inch by staring at it: thats my soul food. There is Anna Hazare, but it makes for good entertainment with fired-up students taking to the street. He is this cute old man...