My Ride on A Tonga Tonga is a light two-wheeled horse-drawn traditional carriage which ran on the Indian streets frequently 25 years ago but is not a very common sight now. I was always fascinated by Tonga and had been longing to sit in it...
A Day with Lord Ganesha Once, on a beautiful breezy Sunday, we decided to take a trip to Nandi Hills, a famous picnic spot near Bangalore. The road required climbing up LAIC gradient and negotiating zigzag curves. On one of the curves, our car suddenly...
A Day with Lord Krishna My grandparents celebrate Janmashtami, Lord Krishna’s birthday, with great enthusiasm and devotion. This year, they invited a famous dance troupe from Mathura-Brindayan for the celebrations. As the troupe members got ready to perform for the evening festivities, they invited me...
Mona Lisa- My First Look At Her Leonardo da Vinci was a master and his most famous work, the Mona Lisa, also called ‘La Gioconda’, is ample proof. A visit to the ‘Louvre’ in Paris can fetch you a glance at this immensely famous work...
My Days in A Boarding School I spent a good portion of my childhood in a boarding school with a mélange of children from different states and countries and that made us truly cosmopolitan. We’d have activity-packed days right from morning games to classes and...
My Visit to The London Bridge Childhood begins with a mandatory recitation of the rhyme “London Bridge is falling down”. On a similar note, a trip to London begins with a visit to the London Bridge. The Bridge connects the city of London and Southwark...
Admiring The Eiffel Tower Think Paris and an image of the Eiffel Tower or the ‘Tour Eiffel’ crops up. Located at the ‘Champs de Mars’, the Eiffel Tower overlooks the river Seine. It was designed by Gustave Eiffel and was inaugurated in 1889 for the...
My First Skiing Experience My first opportunity to go skiing was at a resort in Gulmarg, Kashmir. I was delighted to see the snowcapped mountains. We bought our tickets for a full day’s access to the slopes and ski lifts. We then collected our skis...
Seeing the Big Ben Who hasn’t heard of the Big Ben — that famous clock tower in London? It was recently in news as Londoners celebrated its 150th anniversary. The tower is a ‘must see’ destination for tourists. The name Big Ben refers to the...
Running Errands- Earning Money Every one of us needs money to survive. While one doesn’t get a regular job as a child, he can earn a pocket money by running errands. Instead of watching TV, playing all day long or wasting precious time at a...
