The long post Senior Cambridge holidays were coming t an end – preparatory to joining College We were shipped off to Naini Tal for May and June in response to our noisy demands to go to a hill station for the summer . We got accommodation...
Just an hour s direct flight from Miami lies another world – far from the $$ signs and money obsession of Florida. This small country is the only Communist country in Latin America and one of the remaining 5 in the world is well worth a...
Where to go for Northern Lights? Some say Finland, others Sweden, yet others Alaska or Iceland. They are all good. Any glimpse of Northern Lights is worth it. But if one wants an unparalleled experience, it is Norway by leaps and bounds. Tromso – pronounced Trumso is...
We had been through Madras on our way to Mahabalipuram and Pondicherry but not seen the city. We had gone on to Auroville and Thiruvannamalai with Raman Maharishi s Ashram and the hill next to it. The feedback from many people had been there is...
I loved Queen in their heyday and in the years that followed. It was a great loss when Freddie Mercury passed at the untimely age of 45. I grieved along with the music lovers all over. Music knows no boundaries and remains universal, current widespread...
1. I am incurably romantic. Extremely passionate. The beauty of being in love, of falling in love. How one forgets everything and loses oneself when one is in love. Like in the song “I’m so dizzy, my head is spinning”. It feels like there can...
My father Ramkrishna Dalmia strongly espoused and spread the concept of One World Government . Nation states are narrow and ever changing . Humanity is just that. Our world was always interconnected and today it is even more so . A butterfly flapping its wings...
So how should life be lived? Without regrets - not to have regrets. At the end it’s the things that we wanted and didn’t do that cause regrets. Not the things that we did wrong. Errors are always going to be there. Growth is replete...
When is the best time to travel or the right amount of it ? it may not come. But does It mean one holds off ? One makes the most of it and one still goes ahead, unless its wholly impractical. One will be glad after...
Nidhi Dalmia at Sorbonne 1972 “Catch your dreams before they slip away,’ sang The Rolling Stones. I always wanted to write. When my closest school friend asked me what I planned to be when I grew up. He prefaced his question by saying it is clear what...