Ponto de Vista

Taken at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, 2012

That!
(Berlin, on the door of an abandoned storefront. late 2012)

The queens’ hamam at the Alcázar of Seville. The guide told us it used to be open air but the arches are so cool, so pretty.

how awesome would it be to live amidst this – where peacocks roam and jacaranda bloom under a summer sun that shines until 10 p.m.? Taken at the Alcazar, Seville.

Is it an airplane? Is it an office building?

This eyesore sits en route from Hyderabad airport to the city centre. We were gasping at it both on arrival and departure. Would you want to work here?

In Berlin’s river Spree, they put up soaring public art that stretches your imagination and makes you wonder. In Mumbai’s ocean, they want to put yet another Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

Some of the coolest graffiti I’ve ever seen – in Seville, Spain. July 2012

From the Al Hambra in Granada, Spain. I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. Islamic/Arabic/Persian calligraphy equals enrapture.

So, during my birthday week, I ended up doing dinner, having people over, going to a party, going for a wine & cheese pairing event AND i got invited to a masterclass on #espressology – at the launch of @smirnoffindia’s new coffee flavored vodka. This — The OrgaCinn — is what we created with OJ, cream, cinnamon, hazelnut liqueur, simple syrup, and, of course, espresso vodka. It wasn’t half bad.

Under the benign gaze of a very handsome (and lean) Shiv, this monkey saved the Ganga from pollution…she single-handedly (ok, she used both hands) pulled out two mangoes in a plastic bag that a family was chilling in the river. She saved us all from the menace of plastic and ate both mangoes herself (as the family looked on, helpless to rescue the mangoes from her avarice)