Here goes !!!!!!

26 th Oct 2011, exactly 5 years ago on this day, it was Diwali and life put me face to face with my biggest ever Diwali dhamaka in the form of a breast cancer diagnosis. One mastectomy and 6 chemo sessions later here I am 5 years and still counting. Frankly despite awareness, society still does not look at cancer differently especially here in India. If you declare that you have cancer, then it is like people around you are counting the days and you have all their sympathies. It appears that everybody has lost someone or the other in the fight against cancer. So the general belief still is that survival rates in cancer are pretty less and dismal whereas the truth is that each and every case is totally different and survival is dependent on many factors, the most important one being that of a positive outlook, a ‘I will not give in, come what may’ attitude and a general belief in self and the treatment one undergoes. No treatment is effective unless one believes in it. And I have wri...

Flag off : Bangalore – 9 th Oct 16, 6 a.m. Let’s not count the turnaround back home to pick up the mobile of the General In Charge who kept shouting orders to others on what to take and what not to forget right from 4.30 in the morning :)  It happens after all, bade bade deshon mein aisi choti choti baten hoti rahti hain !!!!!! Our Vahans : Maruti Suzuki Wagon R and a Celerio – I have lost count of the amount of travels we have undertaken in our Maruti and it has never let us down. Want to see and know India ? Drive out your Maruti? Maruti is truly India’s most favourite savaari and all along the way we saw umpteen of them. There really is no better way to see India than driving around in your Maruti. It just fits in  :) Our travelling companions : Uncle, Aunty, cousin and his wife not to mention an adorable niece who is all of 5 years old and regaled us with stories of Tenali Rama  :) Our shooting weapons : Canon 600D, Lenovo K3 Note, Redmi Note, Nikon D52...