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Serene Ravine: A Pleasant Juxtaposition Worth Exploring!

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 03:40:32 +0000

On a balmy October afternoon, just outside Dapoli bus stand, we were flagged down by the cherubic owner of Serene Ravine. As we followed him in our car, full of expectations fueled by the enchanting promise of Serene Ravine, the small houses of Dapoli quickly gave way to a narrow blacktop meandering thru the thick

A Temporary Farewell Poem…

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:50:51 +0000

Recently a bunch of friends of Shivani Kanetkar, one of our beloved guests, threw her a surprise party before she flies off to the UK to attend school for a year. Shivani is a multi-faceted personality: an English Literature major and scholar, an English tutor, an avid naturalist, a Foliage camp guide, and a sweet

Now you can eat the bowl too!

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:50:37 +0000

On a lazy Sunday in the fall of 1992, I took my then (and even now… must admit that before I land into trouble!) young wife to the spectacular Multnomah Falls near our home in Portland, OR. The lofty as the falls are, the hike up to the head is as charming as watching baby

How Neil Armstrong Changed My Life…

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:22:22 +0000

I don’t know if Mr. Gorsky’s life changed after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, but mine sure did. I was named Kedar (pronounced Kay-daar) when I was born in 1964. No record of any serious logic behind the name exists in any ancient manuscripts of that time. I was born at my grandma’s home

Ohh-lumpics Wet Dream!

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 03:10:03 +0000

Like a eunuch lowering her gaudily embroidered saree, after the shamelessly threatening display of her genital mockery, the curtain just came down on the weenie Indian ohlumpics for the next four years safely shrouding our downspouting dicks “Hail the six medal-winners that did us all so proud” the sterile tweets will squeal, a

Puberun was a grand success…

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 04:59:23 +0000

By any definition, Puberun was a grand success!!! If you were there, you saw it yourself. If you weren’t, you missed truly an experience. And if you don’t even know what Puberun is, let us clear that first. Contrary to popular belief, it was NOT a ‘pub run’, nor does it signify any ‘right of

Poem: And Because He Was Alive…

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 11:21:30 +0000

This is an English translation of my marathi poem. I have been writing this series of poems depicting often fleeting moments in my life that have made a tremendous visual and emotional impact on me. Very few of them have been translated into English. This one is an exception…. The crummy picture background is mine. Trying

Raising Addlepated Adultescents!

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 10:24:10 +0000

I didn’t know ‘Adultescent’ was a real word until now. If you’re like me, let me tell you that it’s an accepted word alright. An adultescent is an adult who still behaves like an adolescent. Last week’s documentary and especially the berating that Dr. Bhooshan Shukla gave to all the assembled parents at Grubshup, was

Engineering a Ciabatta

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:09:25 +0000

Sick of the local bakeries telling us to take our ‘unusual’ bread requests and shove them…. uh… into… umm… our own oven (what did you think I was gonna say, huh?!), we finally decided to do it ourselves. Besides, it was kinda getting embarrassing for us to NOT bake our own bread, especially since our

A Poem: You’re The Food For My Body!

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:13:52 +0000

On March 15th, my darling daughter Sunskriti celebrated her 10th birthday! Well… almost! It was annual exam time in India, so nobody was in the mood to celebrate anything… except Sunskriti, of course! So we postponed the birthday bash to summer vacations (which never happened). On the birthday eve, after Sunskriti went to bed, I