PAVEMENT VIEWS

2500 km over 10 days – that was my year-end holiday road trip. The first leg of the journey was from Hyderabad to Goa. The trip was close...

There is a fantastic scene in the movie Coach Carter where Samuel Jackson is assigning the names of women from his life to game...

On Saturday I had an experience which is very rare in India – I was delighted at the knowledge of a salesman. With my flat feet, buying a...

I guess my journey began with the book Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. I agreed with the author that someone who has seen God can only tell...

Sumi and I have begun walking in the evening. We walk up and down the road in front of the house for about 30 min. Apart from being good...

Sumi wanted to tell him how hard his parents work to make the money to get him things. Sumi: Where do you think all this money is coming...

One of the good things about smoking is that you get a feel of the number of people who actually care for you. They come up with ideas to...

What I need, according to Google! This note was done because it actually made me chuckle. Instructions: Do a Google search for your...

This is a blog I promise to keep updated every year and fail misearbly. This year will hopefully be better. You will find the movies I...

It has been quite a while since I did this route by road, so I thought it was time to run it again. This time however things were going...

450 miles, an ever-changing landscape makes this drive a must-do if you ever happen to be in Seattle. My route. I started from Redmond...

For this trip to Seattle I took a different route – Hyderabad-Singapore–Seoul–San Fransisco-Seattle on Singapore Airlines–United...

Siddharth loves to hear a story before he goes to bed. His favorite stories revolve around Spiderman putting Big Bad Wolf in his place....

Nothing prepares you for this day. It may even be a day that you “think” you are looking forward to. You may think that you will enjoy...

“Mama, he is feeling hungry in his poppy-to.” That is how Sid let his mother know that he wanted to pass urine. He knew the word “hungry”...

970+ miles in two days. I cannot count the number of times people have told me about how beautiful the Oregon coast is. So I decided I...

Smoking is injurious to health, a fact known to everybody. Over the past decade, this information has trickled down to every level of...

There are some interesting litanies that we go through with Sid and I thought it would be good to jot them down before they are lost...

I run as fast as my legs will carry me. Somewhere in the distance behind me I can hear the rumbling. Is it getting closer? I dont know....

Those of you who have met Sid will agree with me that he has a charm all his own. This was evident a few days ago when we drove into...