With umpteen programs on dozens of television channels, you are spoilt for choice but chances are there may not be a single program worth watching. Continue reading “Hooked on to WhatsApp and loving it”
Lid off the Secret Stash
How can anyone forget the evening of November 8, 2016, when the P M Narendra Modi stunned the nation with his big-bang announcement on demonetization? Nobody could have imagined that the date with Mr. Modi, his unscheduled address to the nation would turn out to be the epicenter of a massive earthquake Continue reading “Lid off the Secret Stash”
‘Ka’ ‘Ki’ ‘Ke’ Problem
“Rama Ma’am apse milne ke liye betaab hai.” I was taken aback when my friend, Mausami introduced me to her husband when I met him for the first time at a wedding . I felt hugely embarrassed with her choice of words,which translated into English meant that I was desperate to meet her husband. I looked around to see if my husband was in her hearing distance .Thankfully he was not.
Balle Balle !Punjabi oye!
A few kilometers from Sydney, as we reached its Indian dominated suburb, Harris Park, we could see the surroundings change dramatically acquiring a typical Indian touch. The flashing blue-green lights greeted our eyes. In the hub of Indian eateries, we found a number of Indian restaurants and eating joints selling Indian street food on both sides of the narrow lane. Indians could be seen thronging the place to get the taste of India, to relish Indian cuisine and to savour Indian street food-samosa, chaat, jalebi, tikki, kulfi with faluda. You name the street food , it’s there to tickle your taste- buds.
The First Time Flyers
Any first time flyer is awestruck by the grandeur and magnificence of Indira Gandhi International Airport. The sprawling, state- of- the- art Terminal 3 is a chic, different world altogether. However hard one may try to look confident and act normally, somehow the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ look on face of the person flying for the first time gives away. Finding the check- in counter of your airline from the numerous counters, going through the security check and then racing down to the boarding gate that may be a few kilometers away -the entire exercise can be taxing and intimidating. I am not a frequent flyer yet I can easily identify from the crowd at the airport, the parents who are flying overseas to meet their children. Continue reading “The First Time Flyers”
