September 2018 Calendar Wallpaper : Mumbai Beach Cricket

Sep 012018
 
September 2018 Calendar Wallpaper : Mumbai Beach Cricket

  Download September 2018 Calendar Wallpaper: Sunset Beach Cricket Mumbai   A Happy September to you all the wonderful readers of desi Traveler blog. Dear reader the September 2018 Calendar Wallpaper is now ready for free download from desi Traveler Blog. Mumbai is a city where space is at a premium & free time is a rare commodity. With hardly any open spaces and life moving as per the schedule of the local trains the public beach plays a great equalizer in the life of a Mumbaikar. The superrich come to the beach to escape the stale air of their [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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When I saw Sachin Tendulkar

Nov 192013
 
When I saw Sachin Tendulkar

    My Sachin Tendulkar Moment As Sachin was giving his emotional speech in Wankhede stadium, I was remembering my few seconds when I saw him, off the cricket ground in real life.  I still cherish the moment. And this is coming from one of the few Indians ( my kind can be counted on fingers), who is not a fan of Cricket, but it never stopped me from being a Sachin Tendulkar Fan. For me cricket has always been just a game but Sachin an icon.  Well long story short, I was at Mumbai airport to pickup my [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Book Review of I Take This Train Too

Jul 132013
 
Book Review of I Take This Train Too

A Book Review of – I Take This Train Too by Cyrus Daruwala My Dear Readers I am sure,   by now you know how much I love travelling by trains, and have written posts about not only travelling in trains but also steps to book train tickets in tatkal on IRCTC website.  But recently I discovered somebody who not only loves taking  train but  also writes about it. I discovered about the book “I Take This Train Too” on the crowd funding site Wishberry, where author Cyrus Daruwala was looking for funding for his book.  Needless to say I [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Sanjay Gandhi National Park- Borivali

May 232012
 
Sanjay Gandhi National Park- Borivali

When you are looking to click wildlife there are days when lady luck is smiling at you and then there are days when the she is laughing at you! Last weekend Desi Traveler was in Mumbai  for some personal work.  We have lived in Mumbai for more than a year, and did most of the touristy things in that one year- Juhu Beach, Elephanta Caves, Gateway of India etc. One of the regrets I always had was not been able to visit Borivali National park or Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Borivali, a green oasis in the middle of [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Princess travels in Train

Apr 102009
 

Our elder daughter had her first long journey at the ripe old age of 90 days. I was between jobs and was to move to Kolkata from Mumbai. We decided to stay for some time with my parents in Delhi and take some time off before the grind of the new job began. Since we were moving house we have shipped most of the stuff with a truck, but still, we had a lot of stuff with us so we decided to take the good old Train– Rajdhani from Mumbai to Delhi. We were in an AC II tier [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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