AVANI

In Rs. 13.20 INR, the most wonderfully warm conversation with Avan, still in snow-swathed Kashmir.
She can now ski, too!
(: Happy birthday

Book cupboard

I was clearing my book cupboard today. My entire family shares this gigantic wall with shelves for each one of us. I never cease to be amazed by the books I find when I'm clearing up. I resist asking whose they are, just for the fun of wondering.
Here are some gems I came across today.

Think and Grow Rich
-Napoleon Hill

Wonderful You: The Spirit (this is a kids' book about the Spirit, with illustrations and all.)
- Slim Goodbody

How to Embrace Pain
- Prabha Sampath, Krishna Kumar

Tomorrow?.. Yesterday?..
-Boris Zubkoy

The Third Eye
-Lobsang Kampa

Fluorescence in Gokarna

Shantanu had left with us two very cool looking 12 hour fluorescence sticks that you had to unwrap, break and then shake a little. We tried playing catch with one on the beach in the night but everyone was too hungry and we only played for 5 minutes, but I did end up getting some mad pictures.

Muft ka hero

"Naam hai Phantom, lekin pyaar se log mujhe Monty bulate hain"
January 2012

For Aman, for immortalizing this man, Phantom, on my easily erasable whiteboard. Makes me think of my desk in Yeli. Oh how I miss you, 004- 5th Block. 

Stupas - M.P.

Over a day we had gone from Gurgaon to Allahabad and into Madhya Pradesh, led by the yellow-green farmlands beyond our chilled windows. Where we were led was called Deur Kothar. Not much for me to understand at the time / mahua. Wanted to be sitting inside one of these things though..

"Monasteries hewn from the mountainside" is what I later read.


And a transliteration of an inscription:

भ ग व तो बु ध

उ त र मि त्रो उ त र मि त्र स अ

भ ड्‍ भ ड्‍ स आ ते वा सि ना दि नु

उ पा स क स आ ते वा सि स व ज य स व

ध म द वे न के क डी के न ब स ति ये

उ स पि तो भं भो आ आ च रि ये न क सि

>>Afzal Guru was hanged today -- the train lugged us back into Delhi very close to the time. Things almost always happen somewhere else.

art fair

this plant did well -- red bindis everywhere!