Crossroads

One of my favourite activities on my trip to Basel was spending the evenings after work just walking those beautiful, spotlessly clean, eerily quiet streets. It was on one of those first evening walks that I came across this street. Traffic was always sparse and a co-worker had introduced me to the system where at … Continue reading »

Graffiti

When I was out of the Zurich airport and on the train towards Basel one of the first things I noticed was the graffiti. Granted I didn’t really know much about the country but my impression of it was a clean and extremely disciplined place and I was somewhat surprised to see graffiti on several … Continue reading »

The Last Magic

After what feels like several years it seems like I have rekindled my passion for reading Though I have read a few books over the years it was nothing like my days from school when books were my most preferred form of entertainment and an average sized novel was consumed within a day or two. … Continue reading »

Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones is the finest new show I have had the pleasure of following this year. HBO spent nearly $60 million producing the first season and it needed to stand up to an incredible amount of scrutiny both from the TV viewing public as well as the fans of the Martin’s books. While there … Continue reading »

Impossibly beautiful natural phenomenon

Just watch this video and I defy you to not be mesmerized. Reading the description by the filmmaker I learnt that this video was shot over 11 days in Norway and captures an incredibly beautiful act of nature that occurs there at a particular time of the year. Combined with some fitting music composed specifically … Continue reading »

Flowers

Flowers by shantesh This was actually what a sweet little kid in my society told me when I berated her for plucking flowers

Taj Mahal

Loved the description of the photograph by the photographer. Found this on the user submitted photos section on National Geographic Website. Inspired by love and shaped to perfection, the Taj Mahal immortalizes one man’s love for his wife and the splendor of an era.

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,800 times in 2010. That’s about … Continue reading »

Udaan

When it comes to Bollywood I usually watch a grand total of anywhere between 1 and 2  movies in a year. For the year 2010 the first movie I watched is Udaan. Simply put classifying Udaan as a Bollywood movie just because it is in Hindi seems wrong in the first place; it seems so … Continue reading »