On a random sample of 20 women wearing chudidhar on a typical Ranganathan Street crowd on a Sunday evening, 60% prefer to wear it sleeveless.

After an eventless, peaceful flight from London Heathrow to Mumbai, I am stuck here at the airport as flights are delayed due to heavy rains.
Jet Airways is simply superb. Of the 7 trips I have made to India from UK, this is the cheapest fare I have ever paid and the best flight experience [...]

I don’t want to know about that again. Thankfully, it is coming to an end and there would be a small break from blogging for the next 8-10 days. Catch you all a lil’ later folks!

I am not sure how many people relish using a fountain pen these days. I, for one, am such a person. I (re)started using one few months ago, after my better half got me a Parker Fountain Pen for my birthday and I found it a sheer joy using what we used to call ‘ink [...]

It was a pleasure meeting fellow bloggers – Arjuna & TJ on Saturday. Both these London based guys couldn’t make it to the Blogger’s Meet last month and we decided to catch up over the weekend at my place. Seems that TJ got bowled over by the picturesque village of Chesham & its neighbourhood.

I [...]

People in this part of the country are more environment conscious than I have seen elsewhere. In our office, they don’t shred the papers but send it for recycling. The best part is the way they handle the internal communication. As a big organisation, we have so many offices in the area and not all [...]

On the last day of the Oval Test between England & Australia.. My colleague – lets call him A, approaches me and says..
“Chakra, are you following the scores mate? How are we doing?”
“Yeah.. I am. England had scored 220+.. Its gonna be a draw and Ashes is for England, for a change.”
“Really? Wouldn’t Australia need [...]