I have decided that I am going to continue writing on my visit to Jaipur as I visit each place. I want to compile my blogs and then keep it as my travel guide. Sometimes small experiences go a long way to make a big difference in life. Take for example now, we were just on a project and we sneaked time to visit Jaipur. Aint that wonderful? We saw the City Palace, Jaipur and then the next day we went to see the Hawa Mahal. After the visit to Jaipur City Palace we were more than satisfied. But we had...

Finally I finished my satellite imaging and the analysis of the entire thesis. Submissions tomorrow and then FREEDOM!  I could be free for the next fortnight till I joined work at my new company where I have been placed from the placement interview in the campus. 15 days I have at my disposal. I mused over the possible things I could do. I could go to Thol for bird watching, I could go to Jamnagar for the World Nature Conservationists Conference, I could go to Mumbai to be with my parents, or I...

As Ganesh sang the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, I just wished I could play the guitar along with him. The atmosphere was electric and the entire compartment was agog with lot of gaiety and fun. All of us were in the train to Delhi – The Rajdhani Express. We had booked a whole compartment for our family – it was Ganesh’s wedding. He was finally getting married to a girl of his choice. It was an arranged love marriage. I couldn’t believe he had agreed and now we were all on our way to Delhi. The...

It was neatly packed in a container and as I opened it, the whiff of the aroma of the chick peas and onion mix rendered me totally helpless and very soon I was tucking into the delicacy sent by the rickshaw puller friend of mine Sarjo. I had met him at Kolkata when I had gone there on one of my very many pleasure journeys. I still remember the taste with which I had tucked into his lunch. People call me crazy and eccentric but this is what makes Rossyboy. This is what makes me. The very fact that...

I have always seen my mother slogging it out in the house. Always smiling she is the ever energetic Indian housewife always ready with a solution for any kind of problem. Ever devoted to taking care of my dad, she is the eternal example of husband worship. It sometimes used to get into my nerves as to how a woman could be so oriented towards matters of the house. Couldn’t she take a break and get away somewhere >? When is she ever going to live for herself? With such thoughts in mind, I was...

I hung up and looked at the receiver. I wondered what would we have done if Graham Bell had not invented the telephone. I had just received an invitation from my friend Rane who was asking me to accompany his family and some friends to Karwar. Karwar is a little sleepy village near Goa. “Ho hum, Rossy boy, so it is not a sacred place you want to visit. You are going to see a coastal town?” So I got ready to go to Karwar from Mussoorie. I was too tired to travel by train this time so I just took...

“I will come in the first week of June” Lakshmi said. “I will bring Shardul along” she added. My heart leapt with joy and I thanked Lakshmi whole heartedly. Just recovering from a surgery and I was in the 8th week of convalescence. I had requested so many of my friends to take my children out somewhere but each one got busy with his daily routine and it was left to me to feel bad I cancelled their vacation to Thekkady and rue over it. So this sudden unfounded offer of Lakshmi , my sister...

“Anna Singh, Ramola Varma, K.P.Menon, Rohit , Sohrab, and Amol “ A collective relieved sigh went around in the classroom. After the lecture, we met outside at the canteen and gave each other a high five after the group for the field trip was announced. We were en route to Ladakh for our site visit. A half egg fry, and a lassi and we all huddled our heads over the table at the canteen. We had a week before joining at Ladakh. If we left a week earlier we could visit some tourist spots. We checked...