Childhood

Childhood is a special time in everybody’s life.Mine was special too! It was a time when.. Life was about spending time with the people who mattered Mornings were about waking up to the divine smell of city bakery’s brun pav Summer was about spending time with grandma and her maids Diwali was about bursting crackers…

Ghetto – Graffiti, Rock and Alcohol for all! 

Ghetto is a small friendly neighborhood bar in Breach Candy (Mumbai) that you could easily miss because of its hole-in-the-wall kind of appearance. But that’s one of the reasons that makes this place so special in my mind. As a millennial from South Bombay.. I have kind of grown old liking this place and the people….

Pondy and the French Connection

Last month I was lucky enough to get an opportunity to travel to Pondicherry with my mother! We took a flight from Mumbai to Chennai and hired a car at Chennai airport to drop us to Pondy.  On our way we visited Mahabalipuram as well. Mahabalipuram, also known as Mamallapuram in the Indian state of…

Grand Hyatt Bambolim Goa

This week I got lucky again! So this time, my company’s conference was in Bambolim, Goa. I spent 2 nights and 3 days in the Grand Hyatt there! As you would expect, I didn’t have enough time to go out of the hotel, but I thoroughly enjoyed spending time in the hotel and using its…

Incessantly Blue and Gorgeous Andaman Islands

Just in case you aren’t familiar with Andaman: the Andaman Islands are a group of Indian Ocean archipelagic islands in the Bay of Bengal, between the Indian peninsula to the west and Burma to the north and east. My husband and I chose to visit Andaman and were absolutely charmed! Below is a short collection…

The Leela Palace Udaipur

So this week I spent a few days in the Leela Palace of Udaipur. The purpose of my short trip to Udaipur was a conference, so I didn’t have enough time to go out and do a lot of sightseeing. The Leela Palace Udaipur is a grand structure overlooking Lake Pichola. With it’s palatial accommodations,…

Goa – meu paraíso

I tried hard not to write a post on this trip but finally gave in. I had such a blast that I had to write about it. Initially I was hesitant about writing as I have not been able to take many photographs on this trip- mainly because we had a small bike accident during…