After a week of bus rides, we were starting to miss the buzz of our Mahim Nature Park adventure. To make sure the following Sunday would be put to good use, we set our sights on a larger target, Sanjay Gandhi National Park. Sanjay Gandhi National Park is a protected forest area in the Borivali […]
We arrived in Mumbai just before the weekend. After the requisite day of lazing, and a mandatory visit to my favourite part of the city, we had our first Sunday there. Since everyone was free, my cousin arranged that we spend the morning at the Mahim Nature Park. She, her husband, and their friends are […]
My Grandmother has a common comment to make when it comes to going out of town or travelling. She says it’s a gargantuan task to leave your home empty. While ever active, she’s always been a bit of a home-bird. She doesn’t like travelling to the point where she can’t come back home at the […]
Dubai rarely puts me in a receptive mood. I don’t know if it is the same for everyone, but I don’t notice as much minutia when I am in this, my current home city. This could simply be my senses shutting down due to lack of stimulation, because in spite of all the glitter and […]
Yesterday I got on to a bus with nine members of a brass band. It all started with my favourite pastime in Mumbai, taking a bus towards the south of the city, the older more historical section of this sprawling metropolis. A red BEST (Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport) bus on route #85 is my […]
I’ve been to Fujairah many times, for both work and pleasure. And I’ve been somewhere along the various roads that lead to Fujairah even more times than I can count or remember. Most people only know of one highway that leads up towards this northern Emirate, but I am familiar with several because we never […]
The concept of crashing a wedding, or any other large and noisy gathering of human beings for that matter, is very clear and well understood. The crasher tries to gain access to the said public gathering without the luxury of approval in the form of an invitation. So clear is this phenomenon in the minds […]