I know its embarrassingly late to post this when I am already 1.5 months into the trip so will get into summary mode and get this thing done.Boarded the Air France flight from Mumbai Airport on June 26th mid-night after a typically great drive from Pune through the monsoon-striken expressway. Finally Mumbai international airport rose …
Feluda – The Companion on Tour
The moment I travel outside India or to a place where there is no access to Indian TV channels, there are only a couple of options left. One is of course the internet but how much can one have of it? No one’s going to mail or scrap you every 15-20 minutes. The only other …
Moscow Diary – V
September 15, 2008 I remember the last time I returned from onsite three years back I had to wait for three years to go anywhere onsite again. This time it was not to be that long and the wait was a little over 3 months after which I was back in the flight to Moscow …

Moscow: UEFA Champions League Final 2008
Moscow: UEFA Champions League Final 2008 If you give a choice of onsite destinations to any of our IT boys, none would probably have Moscow in their list. Even when I was about to embark on my much awaited onsite trip it was more of relief than celebrations and it hardly had anyone envious. However …
Moscow Diary – IV
April 13, 2008 As the date shows it’s been quite a while since my last diary – three weeks to be precise. So to compensate for that this has to be a big one. Lots of events have taken place in that period, the most notable change being in the temperatures. It was still snowing …
Moscow Diary – III
March 22, 2008 Work has started in full swing in the bank. And the biggest challenge is to make the bank users enter all the BPD data into the system. One can imagine the plight of the users when we ourselves have to encounter n no. errors and server restarts while entering data into Finacle. …
Moscow Diary -II
March 15, 2008 The weekdays more or less went like a template with not much difference between a Wednesday and a Thursday other than a different variety of chicken for lunch.We cook dinner at home and the standard menu is rice, dal and mixed vegetables (we buy frozen veggies from the super market). I generally …
Moscow Diary – I
March 01, 2008 Boarded the Emirates flight EK 525 from Rajiv Gandhi International airport Hyderabad, probably the last time from the Begumpet airport (The operations are all set to shift to the new airport at Shamshabad on the midnight of March 15). It was an airbus A330 with 2-4-2 seating arrangement. Thanks to the immense …