View From Our Balcony

Feb 122012
 
View From Our Balcony

The tallest building I have been on top is Sears towers (now Willis Tower) in Chicago many moons ago. Though it was a cloudy day the view was still breathtaking, 2 years later I went to the top of Eiffel Tower in Paris, France and again was mesmerized by the view. (I was also cheated by a photographer there, but that is another blog post) So when we moved to Mumbai after marriage I was looking for the tallest building to live which I could afford, finally we moved to 20th floor of an apartment complex that had a breathtaking view [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Some Pics From Morning Walk

Feb 062012
 
Some Pics From Morning Walk

Every once in a while I get Josh to get up and take a morning walk, this urge has been getting stronger ever since we moved to our new home. The apartment complex is surrounded by greenery and a small lake that is still alive with fish and other creatures which attract a lot of birds. Morning Sun Reflecting At The Entrance To Complex The Sun Slowly Rising Behind the Lake Some days back I clicked some pictures from my phone while taking a morning walk that I am pasting here. As you will see while Mother Nature is [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Learning Yoga And Meditation

Feb 052012
 

My grandmother used to say “ Pehla Sukh Nirogee Kaya” or the first joy you want to have is a healthy body. I never really understood what she meant till I understood the meaning of mortality. Over a period of time whenever I will get in josh to start taking care of my health the solution that typically came to my mind was to go out and spend some money. So over a period of time I accumulated a Tread mill, best sports shoes credit cards can buy, gym membership, all kind of health foods from Olive oil to Muesli and a false [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Bird Watching At ICRISAT

Feb 042012
 
Bird Watching At ICRISAT

Today early morning I joined a GHAC group to go for bird watching at ICRISAT, which is a United Nations research centre that stands for International Crop Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics. It is an oasis that is maintaining its greenery in the concrete jungle that Hyderabad is becoming. It is located on the Mumbai Highway from Hyderabad just before the toll plaza after BHEL. I miscalculated the time and reached late, by that time everybody has already started the expedition. Now ICRISAT is a huge campus with hundreds of acres of research farms, it also has many natural lakes and [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Saraswati Pooja

Jan 282012
 
Saraswati Pooja

One of the challenges in living in a multi-storey apartment complex is that you miss the interaction with your neighbours.  Normally you don’t even know if they are home and some time you will discover the same by the increasing pile of newspapers on their front doors. Ours is a fairly new complex and most of the residents have moved less than 6 months ago. Some of the enthusiastic folks have been taking great pains to make sure that we do not become a nameless faceless community but interact with each other. Today there was a celebration on the [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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How GPS Saved Us From Cheating

Jan 272012
 

We decided to go and welcome 2012 in Coorg in Karnataka. I wrote about the same in my earlier posts. This post is less about the trip and more about how we almost got cheated by the cab driver. Since we live in Hyderabad and Coorg is much closer to Bangalore, I requested a dear friend Vibhor to help me with cab booking, so that the cab can take us to Coorg and stay with us for the rest of trip and drop us back to the airport after 4 days. Vibhor was kind enough to book a cab [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Low Tolerance Airlines

Jan 252012
 

As if charging 200 Rs for a stale sandwich is not enough, the so called low cost airlines have now stooped to level of throwing full fare paying passengers from plane for not giving way to the pilot. Yes I am talking about the incident that happened on Indigo airlines  last week http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Pilot-offloads-passenger-for-saying-get-lost/articleshow/11609050.cms Is this not strange the passenger was not  drunk, did not threatened anybody, did not possessed any weapons or banned substances and even offered an apology to the Pilot on  discovering that the pilot is upset because he was not given the right of way. So [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Wild Elephants of Nagarhole National Park

Jan 152012
 
Wild Elephants of Nagarhole National Park

Attack by Wild Elephants of Nagarhole National Park In the last post I wrote about the cute baby elephant that we saw playing  with a cloth at the elephant camp in Coorg. Next we went to see Wild Elephants of Nagarhole national park. In this post let me write about our experience on seeing 2 wild elephants in the wild in Nagarhole National park in Karnataka. This trip was also part of our Coorg leg of the journey and we took the car to the Nagarhole, inside the core area of the park solitary human vehicles are not welcome and [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Baby Elephant Playing in River in Coorg

Jan 142012
 
Baby Elephant Playing in River in Coorg

Baby Elephant In Coorg Recently we went to Coorg in Karnataka.  We were informed that there is an elephant training camp on the banks of a river managed by the forest department. We could not resist to visit it, not knowing that we will fall in love with a baby elephant. The camp has many elephants both male and female, but one young one stole our heart by his naughty activities and playfulness. He was not in chains unlike his elders and was enjoying his morning bath in the river. Discovering A Cloth Throwing The Cloth Going For The [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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