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After our last year’s trip to Varanasi and Bodhgaya, my friend ‘Smiling Buddha’, Deepak and I were back on the road again; this time to th..

November 2018, Mangalore: I was to travel to Mexico City for work, and truth be told, I wasn’t feeling exactly comfortable about the propo..

I met them – Kathakali artist Sukumaran and his companion – in (what I thought) was the unlikeliest of places – in one of the corridors of..

We left peaceful Bodh Gaya to head to ano..

I grabbed a cup of hot bella coffee from the crowded Hatti Kaapi outlet outside the Bangalore airport terminal, and found a comfortable se..

Eshwar Sundaresan is an ex-Infoscion and now a published author, counselor and trainer. Eshwar and I go back a long way–we’ve been friends..

Have you heard this tale of a Sufi saint who, way back in time, stole some coffee beans from Arab traders and planted them on a sloping hi..

Of late, I have started enjoying making conversations with strangers – mostly Uber drivers. Maybe it has got to do with the fact that I am..

Some years ago,… no, I should say many years ago… in fact many, many years ago… during my high school days to be precise, I used to be inf..

I don’t know how long I’d been standing there in front of the massive ‘Dilli Darwaza’ of Shaniwar Wada in Pune, enamored by the several ro..

Did I tell you that I am back to being an employee (from an entrepreneur)?

No?

Sorry, my bad. But, it’s true.

So after eight long years..

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