Category: Pictorial
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Indiblogeshwaris Ki Jai!
When I came back from my first blogger meet, I was blown by the women I met there. Here were so many of my species! They loved to write, discuss, debate, concur and conclude on topics as varied as can be. I totally wanted more of this interaction that stimulated my grey cells. I went…
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Bird Watching…….all the way
You can visit an earlier post where it was Bird Watching……almost for my first in these series. All these fellas visited us, just across our window….and yes, were a treat every time. It was like we lived in a cage……and they were free to soar the great skies. Aye Mynah! Bulbul bole! This fella was like a trapeze artist……
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Our Lady of the Mount
As children, every September, my sister and I were always taken to the Mount. “It is not Bandra Fair that is important”, we were chided, even as we couldn’t contain our excitement. Of course, over the years we realized that our parents were right all along. The Mount has nothing to do with the fair.…
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Kabootar Ja Ja Ja……
Udan Kabootar, Pigeon Fly Look, Dekho Aasman, Sky This was a poem that my dad would recite to my sister and me, as kids. We would be in splits, as he’d explain that this was how English was taught to them. Literal translation. Today, this fella came and somehow I went back to these lines….so just had to share. Figuring if his drink…
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Wine, Women and Waka Waka
Two weeks ago, FourSeasons Wines in collaboration with Novotel Juhu had a ‘Wine Pairing with Food’ event on a very wet Sunday afternoon. I don’t cook nor do I drink, so I was perhaps the most inapt guest choice. But then again, I was a blogger and pretty adventurous in ‘spirit’, so somewhere, I think, it…
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Bird Watching, Almost.
The long weekend ensured a time to relax and be pampered. And what better way than to head to my father’s house. Armed with my new Canon Powershot SX 260HS, I stood in the balcony as I overlooked the canopy of trees that covered the lazy lane. And then they came one by one. I was…
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‘POND’ering Around…
Tucked under a shaded canopy, away from the bustling city of Mumbai, in the by lanes of Juhu it lies. Relatively unknown and those who do know, take its silent presence as part of the sublime surroundings. What with the majestic Hare Rama Hare Krishna Temple at a stone’s throw away, this pond I believe, is looked after a certain…
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Queen of the Night
My mom has a green thumb. It is her love for plants that saw me follow in her footsteps with a modest balcony garden. These wonderful green creatures ask for nothing and yet give so much. When my mom gave me this plant, she said it was a blessing as it was the ‘Star of…