PlainGeets

  • 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…

  • Encore Balur

    Encore Balur

      Where the tracks are beaten well, yet no one is seen. Where the sky is always clear, yet many colours gleam. Where there is silence all around, yet whippoorwills scream. Where nature runs a riot, yet peace reigns supreme. – Ami Titash, Balur. October 2014.   It took us…

  • Book Review : Suite Française

    Book Review : Suite Française

    Yet another one of my delightful finds at the now-famous books by the kilo sale from December 2012, “Suite Française” is an excellent addition to my growing collection of books based on the Second World War. A veritable masterpiece, though written in 1941 during and after the siege of Paris,…

  • Gourmand Geets: Un Brunch Chez Moi

    Gourmand Geets: Un Brunch Chez Moi

    Who doesn’t enjoy a laid back Sunday brunch? It’s a lovely way to spend Sunday in the company of good food, drinks and alcohol AND it’s easier to organize. Plus it makes perfect sense for the OCD cleaner in me – so much easier to clean up after a brunch than a dinner that…

  • I Clean. So I am.

    I love cleaning, putting things away and organizing. It’s been a bit of an obsession since childhood and though it’s now difficult to obsess about it constantly, I still need an organised space to be able to work, think, eat, sleep and even be in peace. Stationary stores are just…

  • A Rendez-vous with India’s Frida Kahlo

    Amrita Sher-Gil, a name with which I was very familiar, an artist I had heard much about and whose works I knew from the lovely coffee table book at my best friend’s place. So when the NGMA had a retrospective, I knew I had to go, even though it is…

  • DanSeDialogueS 2014 : Our Solitudes

    We had reached early in anticipation of this unique dance show in which the danseuse would be moving in mid- air, balanced with weights suspended from above. Having heard so much about this show, I sneaked in to get a preview (there are some advantages of being a teacher at…

  • The Birth of a Book: The Honey Hunter

    A serendipitous collaboration is how Anita Roy of Zubaan Publications described “The Honey Hunters,” written by Karthika Nair and illustrated by Joëlle Jolivet. Developed initially for DESH, a dance show, The Honey Hunters was born out of a discussion about the age-old diasporic problem of the loss of a language.…