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Letter from Paris
(Once again, these blog posts are out of order. This should actually have been the first post. Please pay attention to the dates at the tops of these posts)June 15, 2012 On an impulse, I bought a ticket to Paris. A … Continue reading
I am Gulliver, I am Sindbad
July 15, 2012 When I was a little girl, I loved adventure stories. There was a Marathi magazine named Chandoba, which means “moon,” and in this magazine, I discovered a faraway, magical world. The first time I read about Sindbad, … Continue reading
Abundance
Abundance June 27, 2012 (The dates on all these blogs are scrambled up. Actually they start on June 18th and go on from there, almost every day or every other day. I messed up on that.) My friend Adria always … Continue reading
Guggenheim Bilbao
Guggenheim Bilbao June 28, 2012 The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is like an enormous golden flower blooming by the side of a bridge upon a river. I suppose it would have been a great idea in Norway or Sweden, where … Continue reading
Abundance
Abundance June 27, 2012 (The dates on all these blogs are scrambled up. Actually they start on June 18th and go on from there, almost every day or every other dy. I messed up on that.) My friend Adria always … Continue reading
Katherine Hepburn in Venice
June 25 2012 Dialing the TV channel years ago, I stumbled upon a Katherine Hepburn movie. In my memory, this movie is in black and white, perhaps because the TV was black and white. What a silly movie, I thought … Continue reading
In Leonardo Da Vinci’s Garden
In Leonardo Da Vinci’s Garden I sit in the garden of my Chambre d’Hote in the Loire Valley, and surprisingly I do not feel sad. I just ate my dinner here at the outdoor dining table, a hodgepodge of taboule … Continue reading
Cro-Magnon Man
22nd June, 2012 I went to see the pre-historic cro-magnon caves today. And what I realized was that the cro-magnon man was wiser than me. Because the cro-magnon crawled inside caves that were 10 kms deep to paint. She drew … Continue reading
Hot Chocolate and French Men
June 23 I am sitting at a café in Sarlat, hoping to get breakfast. It isn’t as easy as it sounds. For, French culture is far too complicated, subtle, and sophisticated for anything as simple as a ton load of … Continue reading