Commentary and Criticism: Originally written in May, 2018 It is seldom that an advertisement adorning an unnamed wall of an unidentified city in India can set off a furious debate on digital platforms. However, that’s exactly what happened in the last couple of weeks in May 2018 as the hashtag #BetiBachaoRotiBanwao was introduced by the…
Puppy Power!
18 April 2007, the youngest member of our family was born. Everything was new. It was a world waiting to fill her curiosity and receive her unadulterated love in return. All she wanted was a pat on her head, some belly scratching, some delicious food, and lots of sleep beside her humans. I remember the…
ABQ to Death Valley – Part 2: The adventure just got more interesting
I have taken a really long time to come around and write this post. Mostly because I wasn’t in the right mental space for the past year or so [if you ask around, probably no one has been for quite some time given the state of global affairs]. Furthermore, I hit the much-heard-of-but-never-experienced-before “writer’s block”…
ABQ to Death Valley – Part 1: Let the adventure-moon begin
Most couples follow-up their marriage ceremony with a honeymoon. Essentially a holiday to take a break from all the stress that followed them for all the months up to the D-day. Some time off to get to know each other, more intimately, and enjoy one of the biggest life decisions made. But that was not…
Fourth of July in DC
I don’t really remember much about how and why we ended up planning this. All we knew is, we have to be in DC for the Fourth of July celebrations. So we set off, all packed in a car driving down to the capital. With a hotel room booked somewhere near Arlington, the subway was going…
It was a year ago, today, when I first came to the US…
A year ago, today was the day that I first stepped on to the soil of the United States of America. It’s uncanny how I still remember every little detail of that day. Perhaps it was the best and perhaps it was the worst, yet it was one day I remember so well, just to…
Taking in the Green, amidst all the White
It’s been almost six months since I moved to Syracuse. Currently, the temperature reads -17C on The Weather Channel, with a real feel of -27C and wind speed of 19MPH. Phew! Weather updates? Never thought a blog post could begin with that? Well, welcome to Syracuse then. It seems to have a weather of its…
Of Burritos and black beans
One of the first eat-stops I made in Syracuse was The Mission restaurant. I didn’t even know that this quaint little restaurant was there. For that matter, I hadn’t heard of any good place in Syracuse beyond Dino BBQ at that point of time (for that matter, Dino BBQ remains to be explored even now)….
New place, new beginnings :)
I had been preparing for this move for days, in fact months now. Yet, here I stand, strangely wishing I could just run back home. Was the move not worth it? Confused? Well, let me start from the very beginning. Offered a PhD fellowship from a well known US university, I grabbed the opportunity that…
A sip of tea tourism, here’s to Zurrantee…
A trip taken around two years ago, facts may have gone a little haywire but the memories of the brew still remains as fresh as it was then… Looking down the hill, right from the edge in the wee hours of early morning with the morning dew seeping underneath my feet through my chappal sides…
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