Covid-19 Lockdown in India (in its third phase) is a blessing or a pain depending on how one looks at it. There is no cutting corners or streets and ‘locked up in the house’ is the new creative genre. This post is a re-post of my first blog post (December 2009) about my first Central…
Tag: New York
Sonnets and Flowers
Shakespeare Garden, a speciality garden located within Brooklyn Botanic Garden in an English cottage garden informal layout, is the perfect place to spend a summer afternoon reminiscing the quirky from Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. The Garden is a gift by Henry Clay Folger, founder of Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C. The 52 acre Brooklyn Botanic Garden or BBG in the…
Hong Kong’s ‘High Line Park’
Hong Kong is forever in a flux; in a constant need to replenish and re-engage its outer casings. The latest, at least I visited it few days back, is the perky changeover of the former airport Kai Tak *and its surroundings. The runaway has been converted into a cruise terminal and the three levels no-trims attached…
New York: Summer Take-Away
Summertime 2013. This is my first summer trip to this sprawling anathema mythicized by navigational cover ups of the winter chill when Central Park curls up in its snow blanket; the glitter and gold of Fall likened to an aging dowager with countless Botox uplifts or a grandmother welcoming strays into her fold; the sprightly…
