Objet d’art

Places are people to me. I vehemently assured a friend of my knowledge of Mumbai, because I had listened to 'Piya Haji Ali' (Fiza, A.R.Rahman) and Marine drive can just wait. Don’t mistake me for claiming prior knowledge of Mysuru for I have read R.K.Narayan. It is amusing that my mind didn’t associate the Kannada …

Tanjoring

I made a quasi-official visit to Thanjavur (not Tanjore) last week. Being an obsessive compulsive never-return-home-unless-you-really-have-to-when-you-are-already-out kind of a person I ventured to visit the famed Sarasvati Mahal library. I decided to skip Brahadeeswara temple for two reasons - one, I have visited it multiple times over the years and two,  I’d recently been bamboozled …