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Only in India!
Jet Airways, the incumbent, put up a “We’ve Changed” ad at a major Mumbai crossing, only to have Vijay Mallya’s Kingfisher Airlines and GoAir put up ads in response. Funny. Me? I’m a Air Deccan fan girl. I know what all of you in India think about Air Deccan, but I love them to bits. [...]
My City
My city is often made out to be a boring business city, sterile and lifeless. Not entirely. No amount of protestation at how we’re really unique, though, is effective in driving home the truth about (some parts of) my city—how there are bits you can really love, if you look hard enough. My city, tonight, started [...]
Fly Yeti
I don’t know how this slipped off the radar! Another interesting development in the Asian low cost carrier space—Air Arabia, that huge Sharjah-based low cost airline with an extensive network in the region (Turkey, Syria, Pakistan, Armenia, Jordan, India, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Kuwait, etc), is now in a joint venture with Nepal’s Yeti Airlines. The new carrier, [...]
The Universe and Us
The universe has such a way of throwing a spanner into your plans, just as you think you’ve got them down pat. Thankfully, the spanner that’s been thrown into my plans happens to be a fairly attractive one. So I’m not going to America, though I thought I would. That doesn’t mean I’m staying put [...]
Raita-toueeee
Some time ago, I was eating dinner at an Indian place in a back alley somewhere in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. I raised my hand and said to a waiter, “Can I have raita?” He nodded, and scurried off. Ten minutes later, I still didn’t have my raita, and I noticed he hadn’t even entered the restaurant storefront or [...]
Dhaka Days
Dhaka, 2006. I came to Dhaka in the unlikeliest of ways—I flew. Bangladesh wasn’t the sort of place I imagined I would ever fly into, at least not on my first time there. There was something romantic about tracing the footsteps of hundreds of thousands of Bengalis in the reverse: in the rickety buses of Calcutta, [...]
Happy Holi, Everyone
Or happy festival of colours, happy dolyatra, happy boshonto utsav, whatever suits your fancy. One of the things I really love about living in Singapore is the diversity: of languages, races, religions, even the diversity within each race and religion. Today’s Holi celebration at Farrer Park was organized by the Bhojpuri Society, but Indians of every [...]
Out of This World
You’d never guess where this is. I spend so much time travelling, and when I’m not travelling, I’m looking at or reading about travel. It’s hard to bowl me over these days. But… this. Every once in a while you come across something truly exceptional like this. Hint: it’s in my favourite country. The country I [...]
Phantom Punch
If anyone still cares about this site at all, the lowdown is I graduated from university three months ago. And how things have changed. If I knew before university what I know now, I would say: screw this education, the one I received in particular. I haven’t collected my transcripts, I’m not sure I’m going [...]
Guess Where?
I’m just back from what I think is my island paradise—and I know a fair bit about these islands. Obscure without being isolated, quiet without being dead, nice enough size, and a great vibe many of the developed islands lost a long time ago. I think I’m going to keep going back here for as [...]