Twenty- five Seven

Personally speaking

Blogging

  • Of seagulls and gathias

    Gathia is a popular Gujerati snack – deep-fried chickpea flour crispies that are favourite with every Mumbaikar. Oftentimes the mere mention of the word sets us drooling. Now, what, you may ask, is the connection between the Gathias and the Seagulls? Every winter the migratory gulls stopover in Mumbai like many of our own ‘snowbirds’. Read more

  • Good morning and welcome to another week of adventures with my Little People. Quiet is something alien to Mumbai. The city that never sleeps has a busy hum to it even through the late hours of the night. Bombay traffic is horrendous. Especially at peak time, cars are crawling bumper to bumper at peak time. Read more

  • Cows in the City

    Strange as it may sound, you often find a sad-looking cow munching indifferently on narrow pavements in the busy parts of Mumbai.  Alongside her is a lady with a heap of grass or sometimes balls of cattle feed. This is for the convenience of the people who believe that a part of their charity is Read more

Design a site like this with WordPress.com
Get started