Urban Oasis

5 minutes drive from my house in Airport Road, and this is where you get. This is in my backyard. God, you are a good man.

What to do on a Dussehra weekend in Bangalore - 1

Now that I can steer clear of auto brawls, and R can't make parking excuses, we finally made it to a puja pandal this year (Indiranagar, 6th Main). After a decade!

The sights and sounds brought back some great memories when year after year, I used to try hard to get out of pandal hopping and eventually used to get dragged along anyway. The best thing about religion is all the festivity that comes with it. So once I got religion out of the way, what else would I do but eat? So I ate.

Rasgullas.

And laung latas.

Among other things at the mela. And what a mela it was!

Whether or not you have ever lived in Calcutta, or have spent all your Dussehra vacations there, if you miss the sights and sounds of those 10 days of festivity, pick up your ride. And go!

More on Dussehra later. I am on a festival high!

... And that's how it's done!

P.S. Did I ever tell you I absolutely LOVE Happily Unmarried?

I Am My Mom.. Revisited

I had promised myself that "Hell's kitchen" will never make its way here again, but I can't resist today. The first ever full Bihari lunch that I made - and it reminded me of the lunches that my grandfather used to have.. And all those childhood Sundays at home and Mousi's professors' quarter and Mami ka ghar... And then many years later, again in Bombay :-) This is the food I've grown up on. And today after all the cooking, my hands smell like Ma's :D