Project Data Type: Featherlite Retail Store Location: Hyderabad, India Area: 4500 sft Year: 2019 Photographs: Vishal Siddamsetty   If space is a canvas, one on which life enfolds, then retail spaces are a prima donna kind of canvas. A space where the product on display is the star, where space itself then takes a back-seat,…

Am sitting stuck with glue to the teepee and the marquee aching literally to end the duree   The end known to a few muttering to be utterly carefree without a clue, a rhyme or whee   There is wonder that grew out of time spent in sudden soiree with leisure to spare boredom and…

A place I live and I’d rather be, Covid or not!

Hello my dear readers!! Before I flit off my next blog on mommies of the animal kingdom, here’s -a big thank you to all of you reading my blog. Thank you for subscribing and thank you for sticking around. Just to ensure I don’t disappear away like I always do, I renewed (in time, phew!)…

The mornings are of wonder A sweet mention they render With chirpy birds on a branch And squirrels tied in a ranch When waketh a malely matron Unfurling a bleakly spectron Of chattering and battering teeth And a rosy cheeky chewy tweed While pottering and pattering There is certain hammering Shrinking every little pride Into…

  The bells are chiming aloud marking the journey abound   There are but a few twinkles those worth many a wrinkle   Where laughs bring together curves tumbler after tumbler   A hope is a prayer surrendered to the mighty heavens rendered   Lots to come and lots afore words are but slight vendors…

Of all the tombs in the world, none is as poetic and grand as the Taj Mahal, the symbol of love, though tainted with a zillion stories in the books of history, never fails to impress. The Humayun’s tomb, another one such architectural spectacle is not so tainted as it is celebrated. Taj’s lesser known…

Woo-man is a superpower Its a rare kind of a flower That refuses to grow very far For what if there is that tar In close quarters it stays happy If twisted turns a tad snappy The moods are for the rich Who could afford to twitch Planted once it is seasonal If antsy it…

My quest to experience the hill stations of South India has been taking me on an expedition across the south over the past two years. Thanks to the Roads and Highways department of the Indian Government, all roads that connect to hill stations are simply said, in one word, motorable. And that’s how we a…

Koh-I-Noor literally translates to a mountain of light and it was the name given to a very large oval diamond mined at the Golkonda mines on the Deccan plateau of India weighing over 108.8 carats. The diamond was long looted by the British and sits in the Queens elegant crown but back in the roots…