Travelogue: Hyderabad — The Culture

Hyderabad — née Bhagyanagaram, the City of Fortunes — has an eclectic personality you’d be hard put to find elsewhere. Architecture: In this city, the ancient Hindu architecture and the architecture influenced by the Islamic culture have jostled each other over the centuries and ultimately settled down into their own grooves.  Architecture influenced by the [...]

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Travelogue: Hyderabad — The Story Behind the City

Hyderabad. Just the name sums up many visual and gastronomical treats for me. This busy, historic, and throbbing-with-life city was the first stop during my recent  trip to India. It is the capital city of Andhra Pradesh — one of the southeastern states of India — and is a thorough mix of old-with-new and traditional-with-modern. [...]

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Why Do We Do That?

There is this show on HG TV (Home and Garden Television) called House Hunters to which I’m strangely addicted these days. Whenever I’m in need of some relaxation or have some time to kill in between more pressing events, I find myself tuning in to that channel, hoping that that show is on. If it [...]

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Travelogue: My Re-initiation into the Elite Club of Indian Traffic

To the untrained eye or the uninitiated, it looks like utter chaos and spells certain, imminent death: the road is choked with vehicles and bodies of every kind. Pedestrians (and more times than not, loitering animals enjoying the tumult they’re causing) and puny bikes weave across lanes of traffic with nonchalance, where buses and trucks [...]

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New Year, Old Reminiscences

2011 – just the name sounds so sci-fi, doesn’t it? Hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and are raring to go in this new year! I had a great trip to India – thank you all for wishing me well on this trip. To borrow a phrase from one of my readers (thanks, [...]

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