Photoblog: Photo #47 - The view from IJdok
Aug 31, 2014
When we moved to our apartment in Amsterdam three years ago, a building was coming up right in front. Rather it seemed like a building. It fact, it
Even and odd
Mar 30, 2014
Urban planning in India is patchy. Nowhere is this more evident than the way houses are numbered. Whenever we’d visit friends or relatives living in
Seeing faces
Apr 9, 2013
The improvement in quality of phone cameras and the phones’ ability to run powerful image processing apps has started to open some interesting
You and I and gro-cer-y
Mar 8, 2013
The wife and I met online several years ago. We are from the same city but at that time both of us were working in different parts of India. We
Marken’s wintery landscape
Feb 17, 2013
We had last visited Marken over a year ago in summer. Despite having endured a particularly cold and long winter this year, I didn’t expect Marken
Not all who wander are lost
Dec 31, 2012
You learn all sorts of things about yourself once you leave the house or the city where you grew up. My biggest realisation has been that I love
The canal in IKEA’s Amsterdam photo
Dec 18, 2012
When we moved to our apartment in Amsterdam, all its walls were bare except for the living room wall where this cheesy, mass-produced IKEA print
Unfinished books
Sep 2, 2012
I just finished reading Author Author, a fictionalised biographical sketch of Henry James by David Lodge. While I immensely enjoyed it, this post is
Cricket: a year on
Apr 2, 2012
I saw SRT’s tweet this morning but didn’t catch the reference till the wife mentioned it this evening:
Time flies but memories last forever. What a
On coming back to Amsterdam
Feb 20, 2012
In our flat in Bangalore, a print of David Lorenz Winston’s Solitude used to hang on the living room wall. It depicted a tree standing alone in the
A personal history of listening to music — the record player
Feb 8, 2012
There is a little story that I grew up listening to that is still told by mom with much relish. Many years ago, we were living in a rented house in
A personal history of listening to music — the old radio
Jan 22, 2012
My memory is fading. This has to be written down. 30 years is not an awfully long time, but nothing has changed more than the way we buy and listen
Florence Cathedral
Jan 12, 2012
At 90€ for a round-trip per person, the train ride from Rome to Florence doesn’t come cheap. But the lure of seeing Michelangelo’s David won and on
Fogged up
Nov 21, 2011
As October approached, the days here began to get shorter. The sun, which used to rise right in front of our window, began its south-easterly
Marken - Volendam - Edam
Oct 6, 2011
For about 9€, you can get a “Waterland ticket” and travel on the Arriva buses all day. Because of the construction work at the Amsterdam Centraal
In which I try to define homesickness
Sep 28, 2011
The hardest part about moving to a new country is not the new job, not the weather, not a new set of rules, mores and traditions, but homesickness.
This non-committal summer
Jun 30, 2011
The seasons in Delhi live inside a neatly organized chest of drawers. Summers get three drawers. Winters one. Spring and monsoons get a small drawer
The Book Fair at Dam Square
May 22, 2011
We were at the second-had book fair at the Dam Square today. While English was rather poorly represented, it didn’t stop us from spending time in
If music be the…
May 15, 2011
[The events in this post took place on the 13th but I finished writing it today just as Azerbaijan were crowned the Eurovision song contest
Rough Draft: On Letting Go
May 12, 2011
One of the hardest things I did before moving to Amsterdam was to give away my collection of 500 odd audio CDs - painstakingly curated over a period
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