When in Kochi, you will have your share of the backwaters and the Chinese fishing nets. After all, the backwaters and fishing nets are Kochi USP. If, however, you are not bored at the end of it, or are there only for a day, I will share with you one […]
While writing Fasting and Feasting During Ramazan @Bohri Mohalla the other day, I contemplated writing about Suleman Usman Mithaiwalla in the same blog. And then decided against it. Desserts deserve a special place, a place of their own. What say? And hence a dedicated post on perhaps the most popular […]
Yesterday’s post on Fasting and Feasting During Ramazan @Bohri Mohalla might have just given you enough courage to hit the streets of this South Mumbai Mohalla this weekend, but wait. In case, you are a first-timer, you need some quick gyan on Bohri Mohalla!! • Your umbrellas and good walking/rain […]
Come Ramazan, and Jayant itches to go to Bohri Mohalla (near Crawford Market) in South Mumbai. It’s been seven Ramazans in Mumbai now, and his excitement doesn’t seem to ebb. In fact, with every passing year, he gets bolder and surer with the food options at the many streets of […]
Speak of South Indian food and Saravana Bhavan comes to your mind immediately. “It’s as iconic a restaurant chain can ever become”, says my husband ( a to-the-core lover of non-vegetarian food) about this vegetarian place. Started in 1981, the chain now boasts on 29 outlets in India and about […]
Travelling within Europe is a breeze with excellent train connectivity like the TGV, Eurostar etc. – not to mention their regional trains. What makes the experience better for tourists are the wide choice of Eurorail passes – 1 Country, a Pair, Regional or Global. For some reason, the 2nd class […]
Whatever i have, He gave it to me; whatever i lost, He took away; whatever i don’t have, He never gave. Shri Ramakrishna. Nestled amidst greens at a busy intersection in Khar, Ramakrishna Mission, is where you turn to when the worldly ways have stretched you mercilessly. You come here […]
And to think that all this while I had taken it for a dirty, dingy place. Don’t know how I got this wrong notion. But in all these years of Mumbai living, I had never been too keen to go to Kanheri Caves thinking that it isn’t worth a visit. […]