• For The Joy Of Cooking (And Eating)

    For The Joy Of Cooking (And Eating)

    As a child I was as dispassionate about food as one could be. I’m still not the “gourmand” in its connotation of a person who enjoys eating and often consumes copious amounts of food. But I have discovered that there is much pleasure to be gained from a good meal.…

  • An Instagrammer’s Best Friends

    An Instagrammer’s Best Friends

    I joined Instagram rather late, resisting it as a platform for the frivolous, selfie obsessed millennials. But once on board, I found myself instantly addicted to the endless stream of beautiful, inspiring photos on my fields of interest: books, food, travel and dogs of course! I realised that there’s more to…

  • Canva iPhone App: From Template to Buffer in 5 minutes!

    A Canva junkie, who’s been creating social media graphics on the platform since November 2013 (yeah, I was one of those early users!), I was delighted to join Canva’s Inner Circle group on Facebook a few months ago and then receive Rose Powell’s email inviting me to join the Beta…

  • Why I Still Swear By Auto Rickshaws

    Why I Still Swear By Auto Rickshaws

    Those who know me, know me as the fiercely stubborn woman has refused to learn driving (I actually did, just never got my license) and relies on public transport for her daily commute – buses and local trains in Bombay, buses, rickshaws and 6-seaters (yes I used them too) in…

  • Nesting in Bangalore – Part III

    Nesting in Bangalore – Part III

    We recently moved (again) – the desire to live in a nicer apartment, far outweighs the hassle of dealing with the agents of Bangalore, their weird accents and their absolute failure to understand our requirements, not to mention the greed of the landlords! This time we were very lucky –…

  • Social Media: The Tools Of My Trade

    A social media consultant since several years now, I’ve seen the requirements for this position change much over the last few years. From being a purely text based content creation job, it has evolved into a full-time vocation requiring multi-tasking skills, design thinking and a more holistic marketing approach. The…

  • Organised At Home And Organised At Work Makes Me Healthy, Wealthy And Wise

    Organised At Home And Organised At Work Makes Me Healthy, Wealthy And Wise

    I’m a sucker for neat, organised spaces and spend my weekends labouring over my storage spaces. My mother, a perfectionist whose cupboards are always immaculately arranged, doesn’t need to do this as often as I do and I find myself constantly running to catch up with her. I think I’ve…

  • R.I.P Schnapps

    R.I.P Schnapps

    A dashing young man with golden locks, he made many hearts melt when he laid his head on their knee, asking to be petted. Schnapps. Our third dog, but the one who taught me what it means to have a dog as a pet. I grew up with dogs. Our…

  • Exploring the South of India with Café Coffee Day

    Exploring the South of India with Café Coffee Day

    Exploring the South by road has been a revelation of sorts…well-laid out roads and efficient highways cutting through picturesque landscapes and quaint towns and villages with regular pit stops at Café Coffee Days!

  • Road Trip to Wayanad (Bootcamp Version)

    Road Trip to Wayanad (Bootcamp Version)

    We were craving to do a road trip ever since we got Phryne. We’d already driven down to Pune, but that didn’t count since we were on NH4 throughout the journey and there wasn’t even a grain of adventure involved. Balur? But we knew that route so well. We wanted…

  • Coffee, Fireflies And More…

    Coffee, Fireflies And More…

    Back from a very adventurous and exhausting road trip, we were yearning for a do-nothing vacation. A vacation where we would be pampered, eat like royalty and just put up our feet and do…nothing. But not the luxury hotel, spa kind of vacation. We had been through some rather dangerous…

  • Gourmand Geets: Tea Time

    Gourmand Geets: Tea Time

    I grew up on a staple diet of Enid Blyton stories set in the English countryside. It’s hardly a surprise then that tea time has always felt incomplete to me at home. Not a great fan of chai and pakodas, I shifted to coffee very early because it was so…