Remember those times when we enjoyed our holidays with a simple film or non-digital camera and stacked all our memories in neatly covered family albums... Special, aren't they? Now is the time to wipe the dust of them, to bring them out of the attic and to savor those lovely memories once again, and in return get pam per ed with gifts. Here’s how! In the fes…
Read moreSome 15 years ago, as a small kid I saw my grandfather start a change. Moved by the plight of the heat stressed and water starved people of our native village, in the desert state of Rajasthan, he installed a water cooler from his pension money and hard earned savings. Closer, in the balcony of our home, he always kept a plate filled with water for the thirsty bi…
Read moreIt’s been long... al most 1 year since I came back from Japan and close to 7 months since I started blogging all about it . Today, 40 posts later, as I finally get down to drawing the curtains on this virtual journey of ours... there is a feeling of conten t and happiness but at the same time, there is also a strange feeling of parting that is hard to ignore. …
Read moreI loved Japan. But did Japan love me too? In the 6 days that went by, Japan floored me. Completely. With it’s beauty, it’s artistry, its originality and it’s way of doing up things. And now the time had come to return back to my country, India . The landscape outs ide had been consistent for a wh ile with a thick fog of cloud cover underneath - white was all…
Read moreNara in Japan was a different trip. It was a different world, a small place – with a lot to see and even more to feel . It was about people, people who taught me how to be generous and trusting of strangers. They shared their breads, laughters, joys and stories with us. They allowed us to sleep on their beds while they slept on tatami mats on the floor. They…
Read moreLet me confess upfront, I was a very fussy eater in Japan . A pure vegetarian traveling in a country habitually relying on fish as one of its base ingredients, I had always been skeptical. What raised my doubts further were the incomprehensible Japanese signs and symbols and the unfamiliar smell that emanated from inside the eateries while passing by them. But t…
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