SASAN GIR– Lions and birds galore with the right ‘setting’ My previous post on Gir attempts to clear the mystery of accessing the town of Sasan Gir, finding food and living quarters there and booking safaris for the sanctuary. This one is about the sanctuary itself. Part I of our Gujarat journey included Ahmedabad based … Continue reading A FLING WITH GUJARAT–Ahmedabad-Gir-Veraval–PART II
A FLING WITH GUJARAT–Ahmedabad-Gir-Veraval–PART I
This was my first experience of travelling through Gujarat and having a regular supply of flavourful and unique Gujarati food over 5 days. I’ve spent some days in Baroda in the past but those trips were hosted by relatives and felt more like family meets. Travelling through Indian cities without local hosts can be a … Continue reading A FLING WITH GUJARAT–Ahmedabad-Gir-Veraval–PART I
Gir Sanctuary: How to go about it
I was looking for a new place to tie in with the annual visit to Goa and then this report on Gir came my way encouraging me to drop all hesitation and experiment with Gujarat. I asked the writer of the report a few questions about how and how much, scanned the Net for everything … Continue reading Gir Sanctuary: How to go about it
Typewriter—now only an artefact
This announcement from Mashable that Godrej has formally stopped its manufacturing of typewriters didn’t upset me at all. I’m afraid I never did care for typewriters…whether manual, electric or electronic… I began using a typewriter in the year 1983 while acceding to self-induced pressure to acquire job skills. The first I got to use formally … Continue reading Typewriter—now only an artefact
Goodreads: A book-reader’s delight
I’ve known about Goodreads for some 3 years and often marvelled at this book readers’ resource. I was introduced to it by a friend who sent me an invite to join it in 2007—I promptly did that, posted some quick reviews of my reads early on and then sort of stayed off it. In my … Continue reading Goodreads: A book-reader’s delight
Journey up to the Kindle
I’ve been intending to do a quick post on my experience with a Kindle but as I began writing it, I realized that I needed to remind myself of how ebook-reading started for me…so, bear with me through this nostalgic post and you'd figure a thing or two about how people managed their lives the … Continue reading Journey up to the Kindle
Colourful Khichri
This Khichri is based on the recipe of Sindhi Makhni Dal. I’ve grown up on this Makhni Dal that uses only yellow moong dal and it’s called Makhni not because it has butter but that it emulates butter. Sindhis enjoy eating this Makhni Dal with pooris over breakfast but of late, deep frying is scoffed … Continue reading Colourful Khichri
Apple Crumble
With this recipe, I’m beginning the process of archiving my signature dishes as also those experiments that I’ve based on Net-based recipes and I’d like to remember them. I’d got the initial recipe of this Crumble from my OTG (Over-Toaster-Grill) recipe book. It’s a non-descript booklet that came into my life some 10 years ago … Continue reading Apple Crumble
New Blog Theme
After hoping for months that a wonderful WordPress theme would simply fall into my lap and I’d adopt it for my blog, I took charge of the situation three days ago and went on a mission to install all the Magazine themes I could access from my site’s WordPress dashboard. Magazine…because I’d decided that my … Continue reading New Blog Theme
New Hire Orientation
This aspect of an organisation’s processes is close to my heart as a well-executed new hire orientation helps build a special bond between the two sides. My own first experience of an orientation program goes back some 25 years. The organisation was big and used to seeing people rolling in and out. Its program conducted … Continue reading New Hire Orientation
Jyoti's Musings 