Piece of mind!

He's at it again! My elder one with his ever-observant, inquisitive streak questioning life's intricacies. I wonder how do other parents handle such queries? Anyone reading this with similar experience please be kind enough to share your valuable opinion. This time it was a bomb of a question thrown at me. After witnessing a couple of family weddings during the past few months, his simple yet intricate query was "why do brides always go to the groom's house? why is it not the other way round? why did i left my home, parents, friends, etc and decided to live with his father in a new town when he could have done the same for me?" This left me dumbstruck for a few moments until i found words in my mouth to put them to form something which sounded like an answer.... (by the way, there was a twinning emotion at the very same moment where the innate social worker in me wanted to do a little jig every time he comes up with something like this as i came to terms with th

Far from the maddening crowd…. Yes! That’s what our priority was when we planned our trip to Ramgarh in the foothills of Kumaon in the summer of 2016. Come May and June and most of North India starts packing their bags for the cooler climes. I shied away from the touristy nainital and almora as it was brimming with people. We searched for options around bhimtal, sattal and then finally headed towards bhowali and uphill which made us look for some more in ramgarh, mukteshwar and as far as peora, however thinking of travelling with two small kids we decided to not head away too far as it would get tiring for them. After a good week’s internet search we zeroed in on the Ramgarh Bungalows, a heritage property of Neemrana Group at Ramgarh which is around 30 kms uphill bhowali. I went through a lot of reviews of the Neemrana Hotels, the Ramgarh Bungalows, their “non-hotel hotels” and I would say everyone should experience Neemrana at least once in their lifetime. Indeed a “non-hotel hote