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He was moving back to India (for good).  After one heck of a year in (primarily) Boston, with travels to Turkey, France, Brazil, and...

07.07.2007 was a date of great significance.   To him, at least.  That was the day when the list of seven new wonders of the world was...

It was mid-January.  Istanbul was hot and humid during the day.  Well, relatively speaking.  He’d spent his last 7 days in Delhi and...

He received multiple notifications in his inbox today.  From florists to jewelers to online fashion retailers, imploring him to buy gifts...

He had an unruly mop on his head.  He hadn’t been in a salon for more than 3 months now.  Don’t judge. Unless you are from a middle-class...

New Delhi was his favorite city in the world and Time Square in NYC his favorite spot on earth.   That was until he experienced Rio.  Rio...

Really old news.  Nina Davuluri, a New Yorker of Indian descent, won the coveted Miss America title. Old news.  Some random...

He was almost at the end of his trip to Istanbul, but hadn’t yet visited the ‘Turkish bath’ or Hammam. His colleagues were going but he...

Istanbul.  It had been only a few hours that he landed on this beautiful and historic city, and he was already in love with the place....

Quick recap: Aeroflot. NYC to Moscow. Uncomfortable seat. Churlish airhostess. Endearing girl in ‘emergency row.’ Switch seats. Respite....

He was on a flight from New York to Moscow, connecting onward to New Delhi.  Aeroflot.  It wasn’t the smartest choice.  Aeroflot had a...

It was the last month of his MBA program in the US. He was going back to India after its completion. One week before graduation ceremony....

Port area of Rio, 32 C, 75% humidity, 3-hour walk: it isn’t exactly an ideal way to spend one’s first day of spring break. Yet, he was...

It was mid-December. He was coming back to Delhi after 6 months. It was the longest he’d been away. He was very excited, as he loved the...