by Shazar | Feb 11, 2016 | India, travel
Mmm feels like coming home now – how interesting is that .. only a short time ago Mumbai felt like a big and strange and impossible to navigate, city of crazy drivers, manic horns, terrible pavements and incongrously majestic buildings stuck between the falling...
by Shazar | Feb 4, 2016 | India, travel, volunteering
Who knew that a home was so important? I forgot. Silly me. No rush I kept saying – I am fine where I am.. its clean, comfortable and relatively cheap. But I wasn’t feeling right – I was questioning a lot what am I doing here? Is this the right...
by Shazar | Nov 22, 2015 | India, travel
Now I know I am really weird!! I rescued a rat this morning. Who does that? What sort of person am I? It happened that I was in a hotel in Mumbai close to Bandra Station. When you see the photos of the area around that station you will understand how easy it would...
by Shazar | Oct 29, 2015 | India, travel, volunteering, writing
After a late lunch, Satish casually asks: “Would you like to go to Pune?” “Actually” I said: “don’t you mean – you are the only driver available – would you mind taking me to Pune?” We both had a laugh.. and sure...
by Shazar | Oct 3, 2015 | consciousness, Poetry, travel
Can you imagine going to a workshop on soul expansion – business consciousness and connection – history lessons and discovery of the conflict of the soul all rolled into one and essentially conducted on a long bus ride? That’s just what I have done...
by Shazar | Sep 30, 2015 | India, travel
When you arrive at the swanky new Mumbai International Airport at 3.30 am it’s a bit of a challenge to know what to do next. Just outside the airport precinct lies the chaos of this tumultous city. Choices are – ask your friends to pick you up –...