September 2011
19 posts
Coffee @ Shakespeare & Co →
1 tag
Coffee @ Shakespeare & Co
East Parade Church →
3 tags
East Parade Church
on Dickenson Road, off MG Road.
Old San Juan, Puerto Rico →
Abandoned building, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
Rain, 40th Street, NYC
1 tag
Dinner @ Sunny's, Bangalore
I had an Italian guest who could take no cuisine but his, though he has a voracious appetite for every culture. Sunny’s worked well, because they had also Chinese and Thai, and I had two Canadian guests, and four Indian colleagues. Every style was acceptable. The service was decent but unremarkable. Nice people at the filled up tables; the couple at the next table were Malaysian.
And I wish I'd rather be… →
Some wayward thoughts after reading Adiga’s good book.
Aravind Adiga: Last Man in Tower
Aravinda Adiga’s builder—Dharmen Shah—is super-rich. And fat. He goes about his workday with a…
The lounge at Dubai International Airport
A Weekend in Puerto Rico →
YUI().use("*", function(Y) {Y.on("domready", function() {Y.startGallerySlideShow("squarespace-slideshow-params-1316414864");});});
A lapdog belonging to a party lolling on the grass rushed…
1 tag
Chocolates on 5th Avenue
Took a day off, went to NYC.
1 tag
Hotel El Convento, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
We beat hurricane Maria to Puerto Rico, arriving Friday evening last week. Then Maria changed her mind, and on Sunday she touched the tiny island only with her fringes. So we walked on the smooth paved streets of Old San Juan and on the promenade at the feet of the medieval Spanish fort, by the sea. We ate in old restaurants. The museums were closed as a mark of respect to Maria. When the rains...
Hotel El Convento, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico →
1 tag
Hotel El Convento, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
Indian Manufacturing: Time to teach? To learn? →
The visitor, the CEO of a public sector agency, was impressed with the plant. He said so, after we returned to the meeting room. I told him in return: “Everything we know we learnt from our…
1 tag
Dubai International Airport
Lifestyle →
