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THE WINDOW SEAT

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From Window to the Aisle Seat Travelling could be fun, Travelling could be hectic, Travelling could be boring, Travelling could be enlightening,                  Travelling could be a jukebox of everything regardless of where you are travelling to or how far you are travelling to! I had one such trip where I was flying back from Ahmedabad to Kannur. There aren’t any direct flights so I had a transition from Ahmedabad to Mumbai and from Mumbai to Kannur. It isn't a long journey if you ask to any wanderlust- travel freak person who finds no trips long enough! But this journey is long enough for a student who didn't sleep doing her assignments the previous nights and had to wake up before the sun this day so that she could travel from Baroda to Ahmedabad airport and from there on...Well, in simple words it was a long journey for me. Though I couldn't eat anything in the morning other than a glass of chai, I had enough energy to try not to faint! I was sta

A 1960s' African Safari

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Our Black is Beautiful! Shopping never gets tiring for souls like mine. The range of choices in each category of garments makes me wanna try on all of them, but most of the time I am too lazy to try on also I hate the trial rooms for some reason (which I will tell you in my blog which is yet to come) and end up buying over-sized or clothes that hardly fits me. On this particular Sunday, I was looking for some formals for my Jury wear and ended up in Louis Philippe. The entire store was lit and they had this mannequin-torso wearing a cool shirt with amazing prints and motifs on it as their centrepiece on their million dollar table. Later on  I got to know from the salesman that their current theme for visual merchandising is 'African Safari'. He also told me that those motif designs are inspired by Dashiki. I nodded like I knew Dashiki from school (With "Ohhh Dashiki !!! My 8th Grade classmate" walla expression on my face) . On my way back home I surfed on

Street of Lost Hopes

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clicked on the busy street of lost hopes                                                                                                                                 Fidelity ain't his game He is a fickle-minded firebrand Flippant on your existence  Don't you fall for his feign fervent love He will turn you into a fiasco Even before you notice his foible heart Fortitude for those fracases Dear cat, Save yourself from this human world! ..................... Lost Hopes ...................         I was walking on the streets of Mumbai ,lost from the group that I came with, bearing my camera looking around for some inspiration. The Azad maiden was crowded like always, people pulling and pushing ,eating and wasting,screaming and shouting, singing and lovers loving.This place famous for its street food varieties displayed flavored colors of life to me , but what caught my attention was a cat ,looking lost and low. A fat hairy man eating somet