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Turkey Travelog – Part 1 – Overview

Filed in Travel, December 30, 2010, 7:00 am by

TweetI’ve always wanted to go to Turkey. (“And the 200 other countries in the world!” chimes in Sukumar, helpfully).  I find countries at the crossroads of 2 or 3 distinct cultures extremely seductive. Sri Lanka. Turkey. Plus, Turkey is an aggressively secular country – despite being 98% (“99%” our tour guide asserted) Muslim. It’s the [...]

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Oh my job is tough!!

Filed in General Interest,Travel, December 25, 2010, 6:09 am by

TweetThere must have zillion times the thought comes to my mind that “Oh my job is tough”. There is the neighborhood small shop (Kirana/potti kadai) at the end of the street I live. I frequent the shop daily for over 20 years. This is 6×5 feet shop stacked with all sorts of stuff from chocolates [...]

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Signature Foods

Filed in Food,Travel, August 22, 2010, 4:24 pm by , ,

TweetProlog I started my career in Mumbai in what seems like eons back. The city will always be seared in my memory for teaching the basic tenet of being a professional – being dependable. Mumbaikars will go to office in such pouring rain, that in any other city would be considered an emergency flood situation. [...]

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Just an opinion on “Indian Culture”

Filed in General Interest,Travel, May 10, 2010, 6:20 pm by ,

TweetWhat I want to share is just a personal opinion, hoping to know what others think about it. I was travelling in the U.S recently and had a chance to interact to few of my close friends from college.When we were discussing about our kids and how they have grown are interacting with us, this [...]

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Paris Travelog #7 – A Melange

Filed in Travel, February 4, 2010, 10:00 am by

TweetPlease checkout Sukumar’s most previous serving of Paris here. Say “Paris” and images of the French Revolution, the excesses of King Louis XIV and Napoleon Bonaparte spring to mind. Visitors to Paris will find “Haussmannian Paris” stickier still. Baron Haussmann was a town planner in Emperor Napoleon III’s reign. He almost single-handedly modernized Paris, changing it [...]