The new year started when I met two of my school-time buddies (Atul S. and Amit P.), and we caught up on old-times at Zosse. Amit, who has been putting up in the US with some media-buying company, was particularly amused on how India, and his small town - Faridabad has changed. “Do you get [...]
Ranthambhore, deemed as the best place to spot the Wildest of cats, is indeed amazing. We chose to be there on this New Year’s eve and luckily got a room. Some people place Ranthambhore much above Corbett and if you go by the hotel industry, it appears to be true. Oberoi and Aman resorts both [...]
Gobala, the guy who got me blogging has put up his own Christmas giveaway. The first gift on his list is really cool - The “Yoda Plush Backpack”. You can see the promotion here.
The other gifts are also nice. See if that interests you. Let me see if I can get this one. I don’t [...]
Long ago, a visitor on my site asked me the following - “Growing up in Calcutta sometimes when people would come from Bangladesh
they would bring a big slab of Bangladeshi Cheese that was hard and very
porous (lots of holes in ‘em) and very very salty but delicious in small
doses. It is white in color and [...]
Outlook recently featured a story on Steel-baron, Mr. LN Mittal and as I discussed it with my dad, we just talked about how many of these are there in this world ? How many people have actually become trillionnaires from scratch - no land, no money, just a motivation to see “big”. Correct me if [...]
Just came back from Tirupati on 12th December. Had a lovely “Khulle” darshan. Never expected that I would make it the same day I flew. Flew on the 10th December, reached Bangalore at 10 AM, took a cab and reached Tirupati at 5.30 PM, with the help of the kind-bank-manager, I luckily got the Evening [...]
World, I was hooked on to the Internet in 1993 when there was no ISP in India. We used to log on to the Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) operating in Delhi. Those were golden days for me. 1995, Internet comes to India and we started with Shell accounts. A lot has happened ever since. Have [...]
