This post is written by Chhavi and me. I will tell you the backstory. I recently took out my Tintin figure given to me by Hassanein. We met once in Delhi and that is when he gifted the toy to me. But our connect was over the Everest Base Camp Trek in Nepal. While I…
Category: Musing
The Girl with Two Birthdays or My Thoughts on Adoption
We adopted our daughter, Chhavi in October 2009. The initial part of the tale has already been documented. You can read it here. My husband Seshadri and I always wanted to adopt, and both of us wanted a girl. If you ask me the reason, we don’t know why. So, we went ahead and simply…
Looking at the 50s with School Friends and Beyond
I recently turned 50, there I said it. For my 40th birthday, I trekked up to the Everest Base Camp, solo. And it feels like yesterday! Where did the decade go? Half of it has been spent on tennis courts after my daughter started playing, be it rain, sunshine or cold! And she is still…
Everest Base Camp on My Mind
It has been almost 10 years! I gifted Everest Base Camp Trek to myself on my 40th birthday. And 10 years have gone by in a flash. I am staring at my 50th birthday, somewhat dazed! We have never been big on birthdays but spending the 40th on the trek was special. I have been…
Paricharcha by DMS IIT Delhi
I recently moderated a virtual session on ‘Beyond Travel’, organized by Department of Management Studies (DMS), IIT Delhi. It was great fun to connect with my fellow panelists and discuss all things travel! While you can watch a recording of the whole talk below, it is about 2 hours long. That is how much we…
Did you Miss Traveling?
Now that the pandemic seem to be weakening, let me ask this question, did you miss traveling? While I have always been thankful for health I have to admit I missed traveling, I missed it a bit too much. It had become a way of life with me. While I was home, actually made many…
My Relationship with Food- It is Complicated!
This is going to be a complicated post, I have been staring at this screen, while a thousand thoughts come rushing to my head. I almost want to give up and go. Instead I just go away to random webpages to scroll about random things but I keep coming back to this window. Finally I…
Travel in Time of Covid19
As I start typing away, my mind wanders, was ‘Travel or lack of it in time of Covid19’ a better title? But then I go ahead and keep typing. I hardly write anything these days, I hardly travel too! Growing up in a small town, Gorakhpur, UP in the 1970s and the 80s travel was…
Going Beautiful Places- V
As I am not traveling currently let me take you places that I have been to. In part five I present Philippines, Indonesia, Israel and United Arab Emirates in this post. All of them were blogging trips! You can read the parts I II III and IV from the respective links. The picture above is…
Going Beautiful Places- IV
While I wait for an opportunity to travel, I take this time to enjoy my trips again! How are you coping with these times? When I look back, I realize 2014 was an amazing year travel wise. I got to see so many new places. But it is extra special because I took my niece…