Manasi Joshi Roy This That and The Other Hallmark Holiday, Love, Valentines Day 8 Comments
I’m confused ! Do I like Valentines Day or not ??? When one was young & in college it seemed really romantic. Valentines Day was a special day & you wanted to celebrate it because it meant getting to know how special you were ! But as one grew older & wiser (or so you [...]
Manasi Joshi Roy Travel Tales Bangkok, Bengali nicknames, Thai nicknames, Thailand 22 Comments
You may ask what’s the similarity between the 2 ? Plenty I tell you. I myself didn’t know it till I visited Bangkok last month. My husband, Rohit was shooting for a Bengali film & I joined him to make a little holiday out of it. Spent one whole day on the set with him [...]
Manasi Joshi Roy Travel Tales Lonely Planet, short breaks from Mumbai, The Machan, tree house 16 Comments
My daughter had a 3 day break & we wanted to go somewhere close to Mumbai but at the same time didn’t want to go to the usual Lonavla/Khandala hotels. My favorite travel magazine, Lonely Planet came to the rescue ! They carry this nice feature on short breaks & had written about The Machan [...]
Manasi Joshi Roy This That and The Other Angles, Geometry, Math 18 Comments
How is it that old childhood fears never leave us ? ? ? I used to be really bad at Math . . Barely scraped through the ICSE exams with 46 marks . .that too after many tuitions & prayers to God by my parents I’m sure . I took pride in the fact that [...]
Manasi Joshi Roy This That and The Other #itscooltorepeat, Priyanka Chopra 28 Comments
The other day I read about Priyanka Chopra’s decision to repeat, yes REPEAT her outfits because she believed it was a lesson to her fans plus being environmentally friendly ! Kudos to her Being an actor I have felt the pressure of getting dressed up in a new outfit everytime I stepped out for an [...]
Manasi Joshi Roy This That and The Other Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Midnight's Children, Ronit Roy, Salman Rushdie 17 Comments
31 years ago, MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN was published. I remember my friend & next door neighbor Mona giving me a copy of the book to read. Mona, was older than me studying inorganic, or was it organic chemistry at IIT.. She was very very clever & read a lot. She & her mom, Mrs Saxena used [...]
Manasi Joshi Roy This That and The Other 99 Comments
In the good old days before Facebook,Twitter,bbm & what have you’s took over our lives ….if you were the self expressive sorts who liked to pen down your thoughts you’d write a diary & then guard it zealously from everyone … Because that’s what diaries were meant to be .. Secret ! But now it’s [...]