If you look carefully, that's the river in the center that runs through the City. The photograph does not represents the true nature of the city (unlike my photo of New York), but when I saw this, I could not resist clicking it
Category: Travel
View from my hotel in Innsbruck
Isha and Disneyland, what a contrast !
Having spent a fascinating week of yoga, meditation and ayurveda at Isha ( Sadhguru's fabulous centre), which I need to write in more detail about, I flew off to Hong Kong with my 9 year old daughter the day I finished at Isha. A greater contrast I could not have ! In any case for [...]
In Venice with A R Rahman, David Adjaye and SadhGuru
Been traveling so I apologize for being off line for so long. I And then, like excercise, it is difficult to get back into a rhythm, part of which is writing the blog. Jet lag, the avalanche of undone things, and then the post holiday panic and guilt. Guilt ? Since when did writing on [...]
another view
Durga Puja and Singapore’s red light district Geylang.
That is not my picture of Geylang. I picked it up from google images (and hope the author does not mind). But passed the place with my friend, Pratik Bose, on our way to the Ramakrishna Mission Temple in Singapore. Pratik is an ardent follower and I love to visit places of worship of all [...]
God’s country
Just leaving Innsbruck for Singapore. Kept my windows and balcony doors open so I may breathe the fresh mountain air all night, and stayed awake listening to the gentle patter of rain. As the light broke over the mountains that I can see from my balcony, I saw fresh snow powdered over the trees on [...]
Nicole Kidman to Baba Ramdev to Isabelle Adjani and the Parisian world of fashion
I was supposed to leave for Paris to edit my commercial with Nicole Kidman, when I got a call from Baba Ramdev to come to the opening of his new Yoga and Healing center in Hardwar. And who could say no to him ? The last time I met Baba Ramdev at a friends house [...]
“Poverty is my art ….”
In a village in the interiors of Gujarat this man's family has followed the art of lacquer work on wood for many generations. Right from the making the thickness in castor oil, to the grinding and creation of earth colours, and finally applying it to wood to decorate anything from spoons, to furniture, to toys. [...]
Two last images of Innsbruck as I left
Frozen stream The church behind my hotel