.: Sabarish :.

Vortal â€“ Should have blogged about this earlier itself, somehow slipped my mind. Vortal is Ashok Bankerâ€™s online fantasy serial. Ashok is blogging his entire new novel on his website and posts the chapters as he writes them. The chapters go up thrice a week. Itâ€™s an interesting read about alternate worlds and revolves around the â€˜Vatsalsâ€™, a family living in Mumbai. Well, I am not going to give too much away here â€“ so better visit Ashokâ€™s site and read the novel as he writes it! The latest chapters go up here, but you can read from the first chapter at the Vortal archives.

Advertisements â€“ There are quite a few good Indian ads on TV nowadays and a couple that are on now that I really like are the Coco-Cola â€œPiyo sar utha keâ€ ad and the Titan Raga ad, both incidentally, featuring Aamir Khan (another favourite).

Sri Lanka - My elusive trip to Sri Lanka continues to remain so! For probably the 3rd or 4th time in as many months, my plans to go there have been cancelled!

Noida â€“ I may be going to Noida for about 4-6 months, on a project assignment, along with 4 more from the TIP 2005 batch at Perot Systems. Now, Iâ€™m really excited about this, because I have never been to North India (check out the image below to see which states I have been to) and have never lived away from home (maybe alone for months - but still at home). If we get confirmed, for this project assignment, we may leave on the 10th or 11th of November! Will post more on this as and when I get more information.