About a year ago we decided not to buy any food or toiletries at the mall.
My folks were fairly clear that the reason to stop was
a) the quality - especially on dal and rice, my mom kept cribbing.
b) the cost - while the goods themselves may have been cheaper, the tendency to buy [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Maharashtra’
A Visit to the Market
Summer is Here
And How… it is blazing hot in Mumbai, the hills look brown and gold with heat and the flowers are blooming
Aah for a bout of Megh Malhar now…..
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Longing for a Break
Since the new year, I haven't managed to take a weekend off… Lonavala seems like such a long time ago, that most of my memories are in black and white ….
Here is the path near my house leading to the hills…
Maybe, next weekend……
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Me Too Marathi….
…. says Uddhav Thackeray - to counter his more charismatic cousin, undoing the last year of the Shiv Sena trying to reach out to ‘other’ communities.
“Outsiders coming to Mumbai hoping to work in the airport project would be packed off and sent back in a cargo plane,”
cargo planes are traditionally used to transport body [...]
Outsiders, Insiders & Others
In the last week, a simmering problem just boiled over. There has been violence against the “North Indians”. And, I am surprised that people are surprised. I am appalled. I am horrified. But, I am not surprised. Infact I expected it to happen rather earlier.
In the last 13 years that I have been back [...]
The Golden Hills
There are tons of things to do in and around the house in Lonavala and now that the house is more or less settled, I have begun exploring around…..
Winters in the Western Ghats - means hues of brown and green. Stark, Majestic and imposing. The green usually makes way for Golden, leaving the hills [...]
Gardening On….
When we got the house a year ago… the plan was for a garden. Not just a garden with flowering plants, but also fruits, veggies and spices….. mom and dad joked about growing grass - as their retirement plan…… at least I think it was a joke….
Nangargaon in Lonavala is normally beautiful….. but, come winter [...]
