I never ate any Ferrero Rochers or Toblerones, never received any presents and never had to fret over what presents to buy. Until I joined the Corporation. On the days leading up to Christmas eve, I found myself grabbing candies, wrapper bags, gift tags, racking my brain on what to buy for colleagues and checking against the list of names to make sure...
As I write this last entry about my journey in India, I thought about the 2009 India tourism board commercial, A traveller holds a pen thinking about his adventure in India and what to write on a postcard. At the end of his recollection, he wrote merely two words Incredible India. This clever slogan sums up my India experience aptly. I woke up to a...
Our plane was descending. As I watched the rows of neatly arranged standard factories and the greenery from the plane window, I heaved a sigh of relief. It's been two weeks since I get to visit a nice smelling toilet (with toilet paper and soap) without having to hold my breath and roll up my pants. Fish&Co taste so good after being deprived of...
Udar ranked Delhi as the number one place in India with the most scams, followed by Agra and Varanasi. He was right. It's our last day in India and the plan was to shop. We read up on Delhi when we were in Agra and went to the capital of India with whatever piecemeal information we had gathered. Connaught Place (often abbreviated as...
We didn't have the opportunity to try South Indian food as we were in North-Central India. I told him I wanted to eat a dosa before going home and he brought me to this place called Sagar Ratna recommended by Rough Guides. There were different types of dosas to choose from and since I enjoyed all the cheese toasts I ate in India, I...
Last train ride in India. As the train moved, I found my head shaking gently sideways. I looked around the train and everybody else's head was shaking too. Maybe that's how all the head shaking started in India. An unspoken game of musical chair began after some seated passengers alighted along the way, freeing up seats and standing passengers rotated among themselves to...
I was sitting down in the geometrically arranged gardens facing the Khas Mahal and listening to the audio guide when this lady approached me to help her take a photo of her and her husband. It was like any other normal instance of strangers brushing past each other, a moment too brief one would not usually remember. I took hold of her camera...
After walking around for three hours, we sat down for a rest facing the white marble building. The sun was setting and the dome had a tint of orange. Birds were circling around the finial. I thought about our journey thus far and I'm fascinated by India's vast diversity. I know I'm in India (Kolkata and Varanasi) but sometimes I feel like I'm not in...
