Archive for the category ‘Travel’

May 15

The Bhandaris

We kept meeting them many times. This wonderful witty old man, always dressed in a suit with a very English hat, and this sparkling, white haired lady, immaculate in her sari or utterly at ease wearing jeans… and they kept telling us to come and stay with them when we were in Delhi, and we [...]

Mar 13

And then…

The Ashram had just expanded all the way to Kashyapa (Today’s Guruji’s Secretariat office) and we were allotted a room over there for all 15 of us… We went there and crashed, a blissful, serene, quiet, restful sleep to awaken the next morning to the birdsong and of course people shouting at each other to [...]

Mar 12

To Bangalore

I simply couldn’t wait for the exam to get over… I still had more than half the paper to answer but my mind was somewhere else… Focus Focus and yet my heart would give little leaps of delight when it contemplated what would happen in the evening… somehow or the other, i finished off that [...]

Feb 25

Hope

After giving some inspirational talks in Bombay about our clean up project and our other initiatives there, i traveled by a local train and was in need of inspiration myself by seeing the appalling amount of filth that we were fighting to clean up and worse the kind of apathy of people towards it… It [...]

Jan 28

Shimla Scenes

In an earlier post i had put a photo of some obscene plastic bags littering the pristine mountain side… though i have photos of that too, this post celebrates the beauty of Shimla… Enjoy From the Balcony of our Hotel Room… Could not get tired of just gazing and gazing at it… in the night, [...]

Dec 31

Sentosa Island

A lovely lunch, followed by a nap that extended a little longer than it should have meant that Dinesh, Lamba and me arrived at Sentosa Island just a little too late to catch the Dolphin show that i really wanted to see… They have the rare pink dolphins there, but our tardiness, along with a [...]

Dec 30

1:00 am in Singapore

The fish had given us a fine pedicure and ashokji’s daughters were almost fast asleep, but we didn’t have too much time in Singapore and so much to do… so we dropped the little girls back home, and then headed for the one-stop-shop in Singapore: Mustafa Mustafa must surely be an absolutely unique store… It’s [...]

Dec 29

Doctor Fish

In the meeting area of the Night Safari at the Singapore Zoo, is a shop that has fish tanks on 3 sides forming its front… and it said “Fish Spa” … Now i was pretty sure this is not where fish go for a massage … But on further inquiry we got to know that [...]

Dec 28

The Night Safari

It was 7:00 pm. Time to go to the Singapore Zoo, where the Night Safari happens… Guruji had specifically asked us to go there, and we were not going to miss it! Ashokji was our friend and guide for the evening, he came along with his two adorable daughters… he is one of those boisterous [...]

Dec 27

Singapore!

A quick 2 hour flight from Bali and we were in Changi Airport, Singapore… And Guruji was with us, He had His flight back to India after a few hours, but dinesh and i were stopping over in Singapore. Bhanu didi had a Sahaj course there, and i had never been there… btw, if you [...]

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