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The city of deep-dish pizzas and towering skyscrapers played host to my first international trip. While that was wonderful news, another good thing that happened was that I had received a scholarship to attend Kubecon in Chicago too. If this was not enough, I was invited to speak at Rejekts, …

For quite some time I thought that hostels were only for students. Having studied in a boarding school for years, for me hostel and dormitory meant it was for students. It was only when I started travelling, that I learnt about backpacker hostels for travellers. Mostly for solo travellers, backpacker …

If there is any person whose parents are neither in the Army nor have a central government job, and still has shifted places like crazy, it has to be me. Born in Lucknow, spent over a decade in Gujarat, few years in Goa, some in Maharashtra, another few in Karnataka, …

One thing that every person who has studied in a boarding school would agree that the friends you make at that time will be friends forever. Its that part of life when you are all by yourself among other children who are in a similar state of yours – away …

It’s been just over a week since I shifted to Hyderabad to join Wipro Technologies. As said in the previous post, I had to hunt for a PG (Paying Guest) accommodation for my stay. Our reporting location was Wipro’s main campus in Manikonda. (The one opposite to Wipro Lake and …

It has been quite a hectic last few weeks, lots of traveling, documentation, completing courses, online evaluation tests and what not but all of this was for good. After the upheaval I’m glad that things have calmed down now and that a chapter in life begins. Well, all of this …

Do share your views after reading this, I would like to know what you think about this. You might have heard from you family friends, colleagues, relatives etc that they have put their son / daughter in a boarding school. When asked Why ? The response is “He/She is too …

Was reading through an article about how boarding schools are slowly and steadily turning into luxury hotels. I feel not only boarding school, but even the day schools are following the same path. With parents ready to shell out almost 10 Lac a year, the school certainly has to provide luxury, haute …

Wondering as to why I am writing about this rather than Djokovic’s hat trick at Australian Open or India’s dismal performance at Dharamshala ? Well, the only reason is that, I met my good old friends today. And this meeting was almost after 5 years ! (trust me 5 years is a …