Stuff happens!
The message from my friend Pillai was cryptic. The subject line read: Ashutosh Ojha 8.2.1956 – 20.4.2024 🙏 🙏. Attached was an unflattering picture of our mutual friend, Ashutosh Ojha. There was no message body. I checked the time, it…
When the lights flickered and the elevator went pitch dark, I didn’t give it a second thought. The nearby Hurontario Light Rail Construction had been causing a few planned and unplanned power outages in our building. I was on my…
The shrill calls of the door-to-door vegetable vendor interrupted my thoughts. I had been skimming the newspaper headlines as I sipped tea sitting on the porch of my friend’s house in Chandigarh, India. The greenery around the house and the…
San Francisco Chinatown is one of the largest outside of Asia and the biggest in North America. It is believed to attract more tourists than the Golden Gate Bridge! The best thing about San Francisco Chinatown is that it is…
“Renowned chef Floyd Cardoz dies after coronavirus diagnosis,” read the headline. It came as a shock. It’s like I knew the man. The 59-year-old Mumbai-born chef was diagnosed with Coronavirus on March 18th after admitting himself to a New Jersey…
The small group of thirty-something-looking women standing behind us was loud and chatty, but friendly. One of them wore a sash that read “Birthday Girl.” It was around 11:00 AM. My wife and I were in a lineup, waiting for…
As we settled into our seats in the Friendly Airport Limousine, I realized that I had stressed for no reason. Before boarding my flight to Tokyo, I had made a mental list of the things that I would have to…
I had expected it to be big. It was. The villa had seven bedrooms and seven baths spread over 11,000 square feet. I have been to a few big homes in my time; but, this one took the cake. I…
It’s no mean feat: Sri Lanka topped the list of Lonely Planet’s countries to visit in 2019. To appreciate the scope of this achievement, you have to put it in perspective. Countries big and small around the world are vying…
As the Uber driver dropped us off, I wondered if we had the address wrong. We were looking for the entrance to a cocktail bar that my daughter had categorized as “secret.” My wife and I were back in San…