Snapshots (क्षणचित्रें)

Our ancestral home

We live in Ponda (फोंडा) Goa, my grandfather lived in तळकट near Sawantwadi-Maharashtra; but our ancestral home, where our great-grandparents lived, is at गुळदुवे.

I visited this home for the first time in life at the age of 29.. and immediately fell in love with it. It has everything you could expect to find in any typical house in Konkan: countless rooms interconnected through myriad passages, huge almirahs made of teakwood, झोपाळा, पाट and... a giant banyan tree almost a century old.

I wish I had visited this place earlier, and I hope I visit it more often in future.

Maruti Estello

My Maruti Zen Estello VX... Landlord Mr. Chandrayan looks on.

He is more particular about the welfare of my car than perhaps I am!

Sunset at Dapoli

Sunset at Dapoli

People go crazy about beaches in Goa, but I personally like the ones in Konkan. They are so much clean and untarnished by the people.

My Hibiscus Garden

We have quite a variety of Hibiscus flowers in our garden. They come in a wide range of colours and shades. This happens to be one of my favourite flowers, perhaps because it blooms almost through-out the year.

I am in search of the person who named it as shoe flower... Hmph!

Our First Car

Our first car, a Maruti Alto

डोळे बंद आहेत ते सुर्य-प्रकाशामुळे.. लय भारी ऊन होतं राव...

Snowbell

I saw this giant of a cat near a Cafe Coffee Day outlet in Nagpur. He wasn't at all shy and wary, as cats usually are, and allowed me to get quite close. Of course, looking at his size, he didn't need to worry!

Love that fur coat... Reminds me of Snowbell, the cat from the movie Stuart Little.

I adore cats and dogs!

Pulse of Infospectrum

Infospectrum, the company I work for as a technical writer, publishes a monthly newsletter called Pulse. I was lucky to be associated with the newsletter team as an editor for three years. We had regular brain-storming sessions at various happening places in Nagpur, during which we discussed the upcoming edition.

Team Pulse at Mr. Beans (2007)

Team Pulse at one of the Cafe Coffee Day outlets (2008)

Team Pulse at Fionna (2009)

Kaamakshi Temple

सौरभ व ह्रषिकेश, श्री कामाक्षी मंदिरातील एका समईशेजारी...
अश्या अजस्त्र समया हे गोव्यातील मंदिरांचे एक खास वैशिष्ट्य आहे.

Mumbai, 2007

At Gateway of India... It was erected to commemorate the arrival of King of Britain to India.

Ironically, ever since I read "Freedom at Midnight", this structure reminds me of the departure of the last British troops from India.