One of the first classics I read as a kid was Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and the first line “Call me Ishmael” remains, even today, in my head the coolest opening…
Most people want to travel the world but will readily quip that they do not have the time or the money to do so. What it really takes to fulfill…
1) Honeymoon Inn, Manali If you are in Manali, there is no better hotel to stay in this category. Offering splendid views of the Himalayas, you might end up spending more…
Six weeks back, I stepped unarmed into the world of WAH, apprehensive about my first job and nervous as hell. My time here has been full of laughter and light…
“Oii Neeraj, will you book a holiday package for me?” “No mum, I am very busy right now.” “You are just looking at useless things on the internet.” “I…
‘So I hear some people in India still eat with their hands.’ Twelve words. A deafening silence. And then an outrageous uproar that resounded all over Facebook, Twitter, Blackberry Messenger…
As any road traveler in India will tell you, the country is full of signs on the roads, in shops, restaurants and hotels that are funny. And as it goes…
‘Looking back on boyhood years, even unhappiness acquires a certain glow’. – Ruskin Bond This excerpt from a poem I read in grade 12 comes back to me I sit…
This isn’t a story for the weak hearted. Neither is it a story for lovers. There is treachery in it, and also a few excel sheets. This is the…
Repuke – the act of consistently getting car sick and throwing up in spite of all the Allegra tablets your mummy makes you swallow. Packbacker – member of human race,…
This post was supposed to be written on the 21st of June, but then writers are usually lazy men. When I came to Delhi last June, I was moving back…
“Beta are there lots of girls with you on the bus?” “Of course Ma”, replied the not-so-dutiful daughter as she stared at her traveling companions – four shorts-wearing, cigarette-smoking, excessively-giggling…
Have you folks heard of the Washington Mensa Invitational Post? Of course you haven’t! The things I have to do to educate you (sigh!). Well, as it goes, once…
Once upon a time, there was a quaint little city. It was bright and pure and beautiful , a gem indeed. The people there were as happy as can be….
I will refute the statement of any guy who says that he did not at least consider, for a moment, a Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara kind of trip for him…
First heartbreaks are always the worst. Times like when you realize that Santa’s not real, the tooth fairy is a myth and no matter how long you hang precariously from…
I used to love football. My earliest memory of watching a sport is the ’90 Football World Cup with my father, laughing at Diego Maradona’s showman antics, making fun of…
In Hampi, there are rocks. Mile after mile of boulders carelessly tossed across the terrain, like line after line of blank verse: free flowing, without rhythm or rhyme, with a…
Once upon a time Julius Caeser said “Veni vidi vici”. When translated to English it means “I came, I saw, I conquered” but methinks he was showing off a bit….
Disclaimer: As a kid, Enid Blyton books always fascinated me. To my young mind, the words - attic, secret passages , scones and adventure always spoke of a totally…
History will remember the fourth of April as the date Martin Luther King was assassinated (1968) and the date Microsoft was founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul…
They say that the land has been cursed, and civilization has never been able to settle itself within the boundaries. On the road, the locals tell you to not…
Well, last time around we put up a blog on the Top Ten ‘Bollywood’ Road Trip Songs. This time, we have compiled for you a list of best road…
