BATUK CAVES- MY VIEW OF WHAT THE DISCOVERERS WOULD'VE THOUGHT

Ha.. back from my trip of Malayasia and Singapore, this is gonna be the season of travellogs. Batuk caves took me as close as you can get to pure enjoyment. HUGE cave- as huge as two football grounds, as high as two huge theaters. It's simply enthralling, making your way uptill the cave with the huge and densely vegetated peaks hanging above you. The discoverers of the place made it a holy shrine of Lord Shiva. I believe they did so looking at the spectacular long leaf shaped openings in the roof of the cave tha resembled the three eyes of Lordshiva.

AN AMERICAN TRYING OUT JADOO KI JHAPPEES IN WASHINGTON

Just read it in TOI yesterday. An American in Washington has been going around hugging people for a month, now giving what he calls 'free hugs'. And thats what is written on the placcard he holds while going around giving these free hugs, whose origins it should be noted, can be traced to our very own Munnabhai and his 'Jadoo ki Jhappees' in the original M.B.B.S. version of the movie. Wonder whatever inspired him, it sure is an amazing concept.

RETIRING A CHAMP... WE'LL MISS YOU SCHUMI

I'll miss this superb racer in action. He's someone you couldn't overtake, even if you are at the wheel of the meanest machine... He owned the tarmac in most races this season. Keeping the best machines at his tail, nudging cars if required to move ahead and going over the grass when he has to, just to stay right there at the top, he truely retired as the best driver his last season. Doesn't seeing a guy like him race, instill that hunger to win in you? But for the engine failure this would've been another schumacher year. Nonetheless this legend is leaving as a champ of his sport.