Em's Twisting Kaleidoscope

Bombay. Where to start and where to end on the city of dreams.. Wait, for me, it was the city of chaos. And I think in that chaos, it is easier for people to lose themselves and their worries.; not leave them behind but lose them. People are so busy getting through the minute that they barely get a second to spare for what the bigger picture is. And then somewhere, gradually, in that chaos, one step at a time, clarity strikes of its own accord. Just one step at a time. And in that chaos, every moment of peace becomes all the more prized, all the more personal, all the more yours.     When I think of Bombay, three things strike me, the crowd, be it the traffic or the locals where everyone is the same, just stuck; then there is marine drive, where there is peace and quiet and a walk which I never want should end; then there is the third high end of life, eating out, shopping, all of that: distant somehow. The one that I prize most is probably Marine drive. I have been to mari...

So I just moved to Bangalore for a typical month of law firm internship. But as I was spending the first two days with a friend, walking long roads on pleasant nights trying local delights like ripened jackfruits which I had only ever considered a vegetable, I was taken back to all those times in different countries when I had the yummiest moments of my life. While Australia is the most vivid as of now, I do not cherish the others any less though they have become fainter with time. Let me once again start with being annoyingly preachy about travelling. Lesson #152 Eat the Local Food. This especially goes the local produce. The most delicious and natural flavours that you can possibly imagine come from a place's natural produce. Take for instance, the jackfruit I just mentioned. In North India, jackfruit is a vegetable cooked as a savoury dish eaten with chapatis as part of a meal. I had never before even imagined that jackfruit could be that, a fruit. It's like the old deba...