Tequisquiapan Sunrise

Surprise! My mom was looking at me with exactly the mix of shock and excitement that I had expected. I had startled her awake at 3 am that morning and told her to put on some warm clothes and comfortable footwear and be ready to leave the house in half an hour. She was a […]

Margaritas & Marietas

Here I was, sipping a margarita, looking out at a perfect azure sea, with the wind in my hair as the yacht sped towards Islas Marietas, looming in the distance, leaving the shores of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico behind and suddenly I heard… ‘Tune maari entriyaan re Dil mein baji ghantiyaan re Tang tang tang…’ Given […]

Hola, Guadalajara!

Guadalajara? Where is that? How do you say it, again? In my home city of Mumbai, three continents, an ocean and a sea away from Mexico, most of us knew very little about the country. We knew it was the poor, desperate neighbor of the almighty USA and a haven for drug cartels that kidnapped […]

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What’s in a Name?

I can’t let go. For as long as I can remember, I have had deep attachments to people, things, places, memories and even some meals. I’m thirty now but my closest friends are a small group of great girls who came into my life between the 4th and 12th grades. I still have the Walkman […]

Colours and Cazuela

I had seen instaperfect pictures of a pretty street covered with hanging umbrellas. So I headed to Tlaquepaque, practicing the tongue-twisting pronunciation (Tla-keh-pa-keh) over a 20 minute Uber ride from Plaza Del Sol in Guadalajara. But the second I stepped off the cab, I was swept away by the colors and beauty of this quaint […]