Travel Book Logs

The World is Flat

Nikhil Nayak — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:46:13 +0000

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century Thomas L Friedman Website: http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/bookshelf/the-world-is-flat.com Its a bit of a let down to write about a book that came out in 2005. Everybody knows about this book and has somewhere seen a quote from or reference to the book. Thomas Friedman, was so enthusiastic about the idea [...]

Spice Tree, Bandra

Nikhil Nayak — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:39:56 +0000

Frequent visits to Bombay in the last few months have given me an opportunity to experience some great cuisine and night life of this great city. In particular Bandra with its hip and trendy lifestyle has been a lot of fun. Shopping in Bandra at places like Hill Road, Linking Road etc is always fun. [...]

Games Indians Play

Nikhil Nayak — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:54:22 +0000

Games Indians Play: Why We Are the Way We Are Raghunathan V On my trip to Goa last week I picked up this interesting book which gave me an insight on what is an interesting question perhaps all Indians ask ourselves – Why are We the Way we Are? Its the kind of question that [...]

Hyderabad Airport

Nikhil Nayak — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:44:01 +0000

The new airport at Hyderabad was completed in March 2008 several months ahead of schedule catching almost everyone by surprise. Hats off to the GMR consortium for delivering on time and in style. To get an idea of the “surprise”, the roads and hotel infrastructure around the airport are still catching up with the airport. [...]

Little Italy – Un’ottima idea!

Nikhil Nayak — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:16:10 +0000

Every once in a while you walk into a restaurant that gets it right. The food is good, the ambience makes you feel good and you walk away knowing that you will be back again. Thats how I felt when I was at Little Italy in Hyderabad the first time and I’ve [...]