I've been working on and off on a travel book about our long long Chile trip. It mostly sits in my drafts as I wonder if anyone would even read such a book. Just me rambling about our trip.
Here's an excerpt. What do you think?
Would you read 250 pages of this?
The book will feature tweets posted from back when we visited, so here's the tweet about Serena and Venus
Yet another excerpt from my Chile book draft. It starts off a bit cranky but ends with how small talk unites us all. And how I got to know the most awesome @ejazkhanearth.
Small talk unites us all!
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Alright, let's start with Pune then. This is all from memory, so please bhool chook dyaavi ghyaavi.
Obviously not going to explain obviously famous names like Mahatma Gandhi Road and Tilak Road and such. Rather names of roads and spots that are famous.
Nal Stop only recently regained its status as a proper stop. Cos it's a stop on the brand new metro.
It gets its name from the fact that once upon a time, it was the final stop on the then bus lines. So the city had installed a lot of faucets of drinking water there.
नळ (Nal) is the Marathi for faucet. So it was quite literally the last stop, with a lot of faucets, where people could fill up water before heading out into the then wild lands of Erandwane and Kothrud and Pashan and whatnot.
It's that time of the year when I get pissed off at why India has to wait 3 days to count election results even at state level when the rest of the world usually starts counting votes right after voting ends.
It's such an obvious flaw in the system for malfeasance or suspicion.
I've heard the usual "India alag hai yaar" bros giving excuses like how big and diverse and all India is.
They really don't hold water. Abraham Lincoln's win was called the midnight after polls closed cos of a revolutionary new invention called the telegraph.
Maybe I'm being too "NRI" but I feel like India 2022 should be at least on par with USA 1860 when it comes to how democracy functions.
Don't people see the obvious problem with these long delays? It seems like a delay by design, not by compulsion.