Dear Thala, I’m writing this on the aftermath of last night’s IPL final. I’ve not fallen in love with too many things in my life. If I think hard, I can count them with the fingers on one hand. But I’ve fallen in love with you. It took a while coming, as I wasn’t your biggest fan growing up. You were this guy with long … Continue reading Open Letter To MS Dhoni
It is done! Chennai Super Kings have clinched the Indian Premier League 2018 trophy. And what a ride it has been. A fairytale ending to the comeback trail in the tournament. During the auction in January this year, the Super Kings stacked up a team in the wrong side of their 30s. Back then, amidst criticism, Stephen Fleming said they had consciously gone for experienced … Continue reading The Glory Days Are Back
About two years after my last trip to a South Indian village setup, I decided to do a quick weekend trip to my friend Hari’s ancestral village last weekend. I wanted a change from the city lifestyle, even if it was just for a couple of days. His father had constructed a temple and prayer hall using crowdsourced funds for the principal deity of the … Continue reading Native Touch Of A City Bred – Two Years Later
Diwali during my childhood meant a lot to me. It was also very different from what it is now. Diwali meant ordering sweets and savouries from the best sweet shop in town a week in advance. It was about shopping in the crowded T Nagar streets as a family for the family. Diwali meant buying crackers, and making sure you spent more than what did … Continue reading Diwali Reminiscence
Five items I enjoyed this week: Pad Thai at Sichuan Little did I know that Pad Thai was an unfamiliar dish to most people, till I asked my friend to look for Asian dinner places that had Pad Thai on the menu one day and he didn’t know what it was. Pad Thai noodles, as the name suggests, is a Thai delicacy made out of … Continue reading Exciting food for the excited soul
Last weekend, I along with my friends Arvind and Sashank decided to head to MTR, Bangalore’s legacy restaurant and food products company that’s been there since 1924 (which they’ve made sure everyone knows about by highlighting at the entrance along with the logo) to have their elaborate meals. Costing ₹250, it was more expensive than the typical South Indian meals, limited or unlimited notwithstanding. The … Continue reading The Royal Karnataka Thali Meals
Continuing from where I left off in the previous blog entry, we took a morning bus to Mount Abu from Udaipur, a three hour journey that cut across a lot of barren looking terrain and ended up in a ‘hill station’ that was searing hot. As soon as we reached, we were swarmed by a lot of guys asking if we wanted rooms or a … Continue reading Rajasthan Diaries – Part II
Udaipur is referred to as a place that can give quaint European towns a run for their money. A town nestled in the valleys of the Aravalli range, with lakes, palaces and stories of the mighty Rajput empire at every turn, Udaipur was impressive at first sight. We’re a group of four backpacking for more than a week around Rajasthan, and we had booked The … Continue reading The city of lakes – The hues and views
Last weekend, my roommates and I went shopping to a hyper store. Hyper stores are unlike normal supermarkets, in a way that they have approximately 20 billing counters, and each of them has five people waiting in line, having 40 items each. If it takes one hour to shop, it takes another hour to finish billing and get out. Let’s not even get to the … Continue reading Weekend shopping with Perpule
Test cricket in Chennai has always been fascinating. Whether it was Sehwag’s blitzkrieg 319 in a drawn test, the record 4th innings chase against England, Harbhajan’s 15 wicket match haul against Australia or the most recent double century by Dhoni in 2013, there have always been reasons to look forward to and enjoy a game at the Chepauk Stadium. After a three year hiatus, Test … Continue reading When Chennai and Cricket came together again
