My Love Affair with Mumbai

In 2010 when I moved to Mumbai, I didn’t know that the actualisation of my dreams would change me forever. It was the city where I knew no one and had no prior acquaintances and yet hoped I would somehow live there since I was in school. And when it actually happened, I was in…

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Photo Story: Street Art on Chapel Road, Mumbai

One of my many homes was the beautiful and different Chapel Road in Bandra West, Mumbai. I still remember the warm vibe of the twisted lanes and the noise of the rickshaws zooming pass my home. Once I had settled in, I would always look for excuses to walk around the locality. Thankfully on Chapel…

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The Bar Stock Exchange, Mumbai

When visiting Bombay, I am naturally playing safe and sticking by my favourite bars and dine-ins. However, this time, I decided to visit the very intriguing The Bar Stock Exchange in Bandra Kurla Complex and I am definitely glad I did. Applying the simple concept of a stock exchange, here the prices of the liquor…

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Above the Goan seas

I feel the wind and meditate faintly. Forgoing all control and experiencing the lightness of being. As if I were a cloud above the great waters, Sailing smoothly through the suns of time. No sooner the plane took off from Goa’s runway, I saw a distinct rainbow and moments later appeared this scene. I couldn’t…

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My Favourite Monsoon Memories

Rains are beautiful, lethargic, liberating and romantic. It means differently to each of us though it is unanimously welcomed. Every year India awaits the Monsoons even more desperately than the last. Apart from our economy depending largely on it, most of us are just looking for excuses to get away from our routine. It seems…

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The otherside of travel

Over the last week, I have travelled across four states and used four different modes of interstate transport. Now, I am back to base and all I feel is a great sense of exhaustion and relief. Travel appears very attractive and leisurely to those who don’t engage with it on an every day basis. Until…

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