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Between Falling Leaves and First Snow

Musings As the Year Closes Winter has arrived almost without notice. A few snow showers have already passed through, leaving behind a softened world and the promise of more to come. The brilliant colours and ensorcelling splendour of autumn have withdrawn without farewell. The golds and crimsons that once flared so confidently leave no trace.Continue reading “Between Falling Leaves and First Snow”

India’s Aviation Paradox: Growth Amid Fragility-Part II

Profitability, Policy, and the Road Ahead If Part 1 traced the dramatic growth and fragility of Indian aviation, Part 2 examines why profitability remains elusive, the structural and regulatory bottlenecks that reinforce fragility, and what can realistically be done to secure the sector’s future. Despite soaring passenger numbers, airlines struggle to convert traffic into profits.Continue reading “India’s Aviation Paradox: Growth Amid Fragility-Part II”

India’s Aviation Paradox: Growth Amid Fragility-Part I

Rise, Dominance, and the Recent Crisis India’s skies have never been busier. Domestic aviation has grown explosively over the past two decades, carrying millions of passengers who would once have regarded air travel as a luxury. Low-cost carriers like IndiGo and SpiceJet have democratized flying, making it accessible even to aspirational lower-middle-class families, while full-serviceContinue reading “India’s Aviation Paradox: Growth Amid Fragility-Part I”

शॉर्ट हिल्स का हिमपात

आज सुबह से ही बर्फ गिर रही है। नहीं, बर्फ गिर रही है यह कहना पूरा सही नहीं होगा । गिरने में तो एक अनिच्छा, असहायता का भाव है। बर्फ गिर नहीं रही है, असल में बर्फ झर रही है, अपनी इच्छा से, अनायास, और संभवतः पूरे मन से, खुश होकर। इस झरन में भी एक लय है, संगीत है, नृत्य है। रसिक हृदय वालोंContinue reading “शॉर्ट हिल्स का हिमपात”

The Tyranny of Routine, the Seduction of Comfort

An Essay on How I Turn Every Vacation into a Mirror of Domestic Life Travel, they say, is meant to free us—from routine, from predictability, from the familiar tyranny of our own habits. It is meant to unsettle us gently, to loosen our rituals, to introduce us to novelty with a forgiving smile. umour, satire.This,Continue reading “The Tyranny of Routine, the Seduction of Comfort”

A Brief Tryst with Snow

I stepped out for a late afternoon walk on the roads of Short Hills, just after the land had been laid under a six-inch white carpet of snow. Overnight, the world had been quietly rewritten. Familiar streets, hedges, mailboxes, roofs, and lawns had surrendered their individual identities and merged into a single, dazzling expanse ofContinue reading “A Brief Tryst with Snow”

What a Week Teaches Us About Life

As I prepare to leave Punta Cana—this sliver of sunlit earth bordered by warm winds and waters of impossible blue—I find myself gathering the week not just into my suitcase, but into my thoughts. A vacation, I realise, is not merely a pause from life; it is a concentrated version of it. In seven days,Continue reading “What a Week Teaches Us About Life”

A Caribbean in a Glass: The Rum Soul of Punta Cana

A Spirit with a Long Memory There are drinks you sip, and there are drinks you inherit—flavours carried through centuries, weathered by wind, sea, sugar, and story. In the Dominican Republic, and in Punta Cana in particular, rum is not merely a spirit; it is the distilled memory of the Caribbean. Spend even a weekContinue reading “A Caribbean in a Glass: The Rum Soul of Punta Cana”

Discovering Dominican Cuisine in Punta Cana

An Invitation to Taste Punta Cana may be best known for its ethereal natural beauty—long belts of powdered white sand and the shimmering interplay of Atlantic and Caribbean waters creating a shifting tapestry of emerald and turquoise—but its culinary landscape offers discoveries of a gentler, more intimate kind. Alongside its vibrant beverages and relaxed islandContinue reading “Discovering Dominican Cuisine in Punta Cana”

Eyes of the Earth: Punta Cana’s Indigenous Forest Reserve

Punta Cana is often spoken of in the language of beaches—turquoise waters, powdered-sugar sands, coconut groves bending into Caribbean winds. Yet, just a short distance from the familiar rhythm of surf and sun lies a quieter, older heartbeat: a 15,000-acre subtropical forest that the sea breezes seem to guard like a secret. Known today asContinue reading “Eyes of the Earth: Punta Cana’s Indigenous Forest Reserve”