Under a sky of flowers

In Bangalore – and after an extremely stressful first ten days, the dust looks like settling down and I am ready to start thinking about making an effort to stop missing Bombay (and I promise nothing, note).
For now, an old photograph from Bangalore – this remains one of my most popular images on flickr…

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The buskers are abusking

A set of images from two of my favourite places in London for catching street performers at work – Covent Garden and SouthBank. Although Covent Garden is no longer the fresh fruit and vegetable market that it was for a few centuries, it is today one of the best places in London to walk around [...]

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Lazy London pic

I have been busy moving city and home and handling all the stress that comes with it – for those of you who don’t know (and why don’t you?!), I have moved to Bangalore. Hope to get back to blogging here soon.
For now, one of my all-time favourite images from London…

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Faith

I read this today and liked it enough to share here…
To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful “magic skills” that human beings are capable of. It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom [...]

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Longing, belonging

The Tibetan community has been in Mcleodganj for close to five decades now, but the nostalgia for home and country is evident on the faces of Tibetans I see on the streets. Despite the trappings of modern life – cellphone, internet, fast food – that the community seems to have adopted, what stands out is [...]

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You are as old as you feel

Thought for the day:
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter”. ~Mark Twain

{Chatuchak weekend market, Bangkok, Thailand}

{Local market, Maddur, Karnataka, India}

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Who is a foodie? Not me

Everyone claims to be a foodie… I remember hotly protesting once – “but I am not a foodie” and was asked with a big smirk “why, don’t you eat?”

Who really is a foodie? Is it someone who likes to eat? who loves to eat? who lives to eat?
Or is it someone who just likes interesting [...]

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Mumbai’s Dick Whittingtons

This is one of the blog posts I wrote as part of the auditions for the top 3 in the Great Driving Challenge…
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They come to Mumbai by the thousands everyday. They bring with them not cats but their hopes and dreams. They may or may not believe that the streets of Mumbai are paved [...]

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Why I travel

People ask me all the time “how do you travel so much”?
I came across the answer today – I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine ~Caskie Stinnett

The most delightful – and insightful – essay on travel is perhaps this by Pico Iyer – Why We Travel
We travel, initially, to [...]

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