Carpe diem! Seize the day! Just go ahead and seize this summer's day for somewhere far away from where you stand today, under the shade of the whistling palms, swings a hammock, waiting, waiting just for you.
From toddlescence to adolescence, I spent many happy hours roaming the forests of Bangalla with Lee Falk’s endearing hero – The Phantom.
In one of his interviews, Shah Rukh Khan revealed that his father had once expressed a desire that whenever it was they got to visit Kashmir, they must do it together.
My colleagues tell me that India changed decisively in 1982. I was in school so I don’t really remember the detailed newspaper headlines of those days. But I do know that the politics of Andhra Pradesh changed forever in 1982. Apparently, the then Chief Minister of AP T. Anjaiah wanted to pick up the slippers of Rajiv Gandhi.
The globetrotting boy reporter is in town. Who if not us, fellow Gypsies, would rejoice more at Steven Spielberg’s concerted motion-capture tribute to that indefatigable traveler/sleuth called Tintin?
Greetings to all you good people. First things first, thank you for your generous acknowledgement of the first edition of G&B. The trepidation and enthusiasm in equal parts with which we set out have made a rather fulfilling journey into your hands, or at least that is what your tremendous feedback would have us believe. And yet we remain humbly cognizant of the miles to go before we come anywhere close to signing away the merits of the journey over the destination, or vice versa.
Because it’s there. That’s what English mountaineer George Mallory is believed to have famously replied when asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest.