While I’d like to say no grandmothers or little girls were eaten in the making of this photograph, that would be an exaggeration. We also somehow managed to eat a dragon, who suddenly appeared on the way to grandma’s house….
Archives for 2013
Foto Friday: It Ain’t Easy Livin’ The Thug Life
It ain’t easy living the Thug Life. You get up, you gotta put on a tiarra, then you have to do some gangsta shit. You eat well, you dress well, you sleep well. You wake up in the middle of…
Chole Without Piaz and Other Acts of Culinary Sacrilege in India
We ate A LOT of fabulous food in India — from panch paani gol gappe to those fabulous alu ki tikki burgers that the street stall guy served up just outside of the Golden Temple. (And sadly, I can’t get…
5 Kickass Apps for Travellers
One of the annoying things about travel apps is that having too many can inadvertently turn you into one of those travellers who never fully leaves home. The sort that has no need to interact with anyone because “there’s an…
India: A Magical Palace In Mysore
Navdeep remembers Mysore for those crazy, three-foot-long paper dosas, and the rip-off hotel astrologer who, not realizing we were already wed, told Navdeep he’d find his bride somewhere around 34. (We got married when he was 26, and then…
The Joy of Eating Street Food
Before we left for our six-month honeymoon to India back in 2007, we received all sorts of unsolicited advice in New Jersey, where we had a Four Hour Layover Fiesta, with the biggest family naan I have ever seen. And…
Blogathon 2013!
Now that Navdeep’s wrapped up his spring classes and I’ve quit my daily blogging gig (after nearly four years!), we don’t quite know what to do with ourselves. Well, that is, besides listing our apartment, writing our various and sundry…
Our Kahani, 2013
IshqInABackpack.com co-creator and author Navdeep Singh Dhillon shares Our Kahani, from New York City to India.
Our Kahani
Our Kahani means Our Story, but I won’t ever call it that for the same reason I will never say What is your problem? instead of What is your funda? Or say chai-tea, or naan-bread. And if anyone translated IshqInABackpack as…
Navdeep’s Ultimate Hot Toddy Recipe
After a lovely weekend of sunshine in New York City, out of nowhere I came down with a full on cold – sore throat, sniffles, the works. My immediate reaction is to skip the cold medicine and go straight to…
