Archives for “Places”
- Guru Ranganathan After roaming around in kormangala at forum Bangalore, I was looking for an autorickshaw to go to my friends place. And I happen to be from Chennai . Autowallas in bangalore are totally a different breed from Chennai, while autowallas in Chennai crave for their business, these guys are not bothered! to [...]
- By Avinash Y I was born here in 1986. Lived here till 1993. I went back to this place after Sep 1993 in Jul 2010. It was a quaint little town and I shouldn’t have remembered anything from the place. But somehow though I’ve been in bigger cities with better infrastructure had more fun, [...]
- Payal Chakravarty Its been a while. I have been traveling, trying to settle down. Again. A new city, new work place, new room to stay, new weather, new traffic, new computer, new people, new food, new commute, new daily schedule. And this is the probably the fifteenth time in the past seven years, since [...]
- Iswarya Murali Yes, yes, Chennai is hot. And humid. And dusty. And Chennai’s autowallahs are the kings of overcharging. Yes, Chennai, despite the prevalence of pubs and discos, is still probably the most conservative metro in India. But, despite all this(or is it because of all this?) Chennai is the first love of my [...]
- Sangeeta Pillai Lander Displaced? Me? I’ve always dreamed of exotic travel – even when I was a little girl growing up in a crowded one-bedroom suburban Mumbai apartment within a family of five. I dreamed, yes, but never thought it was possible. And wonder of wonders, I now live in another country and I [...]
- Photo & Words by Maneesh Phatak I was born in Bombay. My first few nappy changes brought along a heady rush of smells, sights and sounds as my parents took connecting trains and planes, shifting across the length and breadth of India bag, baggage, two bawling kids and 42 wooden boxes in tow. Pathankot, [...]
- By Joyeeta Patpatia Sometimes your city can displace you. From who you are, how you feel, what you are and what you want to be. I felt displaced in Bombay. Every now and then I dreamt of escape. From the grime, sweat, hard work, tired feet and the noise. Oh the noise. I spent [...]
I recently went on a three day visit to Coimbatore, where most of my mother’s family lives. Since I was sulking all the way on the train I stared out of the window most of the time and had plenty of time to notice how the scenery changed. I fell asleep after having stared the [...]
Upon arriving in Finland, I braced myself for an impenetrable language, difficult food, and odd social customs, but I was also shocked by the physical city. I quickly learned that knowing where to look or how fast to walk aren’t universal conventions – these are habits that each city teaches us. The numbered grid system. [...]
I recently volunteered to participate in an election campaign that took place in Bangalore. As a part of my efforts during this campaign, I saw places with my own eyes that had thus far only existed as figments of my imagination in the visceral recesses of my brain. I saw and met people whose living [...]
The pelmets for the curtains in the bedroom were simple wooden ones without any carvings. The curtains were maroon and worn out for most part. When we closed them on afternoons we napped, they would make the bedroom look maroon. You could watch reflections of people walking by on the street on the roof through [...]
Tokyo swallowed me up in one neon-flashing, subway-mobbing, impossibly bright and impeccably-styled gulp. I live here now. I say the words carefully, letting them roll over my tongue (trembling from a day of stumbling through the staccato fortress that is Japanese). I’m glad to be seen carrying grocery bags down the alley behind my apartment- [...]