Locho: Surat’s Famous Food Dish

Locho: Surat’s Famous Food Dish

As the story goes (partly as I heard from Gujju relatives and partly made up by me), A shop sold really tasty dhoklas in Surat. One day the cook at this shop was making his fresh batch of dhoklas, but he was distracted. We could imagine that it was makar sankranti,...
Jibhi: A Month in the Mountains

Jibhi: A Month in the Mountains

This Himalayan trip was easily one of my best – a week in the astounding desert of Spiti and then over a month in Jibhi – a beautiful, lush green mountain town at 7,000 ft. The idea was simple, leave the metropolis madness called Mumbai behind and be...