Usha's Odyssey

Our journey When my daughter left for USA for further studies, we first went to Nainital. We flew from Mumbai to Delhi by Plane. An Interesting Episode - On reaching Delhi we decided to travel by bus from Delhi to Nainital. There we met two German ladies travelling by the same bus. We tried to help them but they were familiar with where they were going, Ranikhet was the place where they had come to work at Hindu temple. So when we were travelling by car we stopped to meet the

Me and my husband went to Mussoorie along with my sister and two more of her friends. We all stayed at a bungalow owned by a lady from Mumbai. The present owner of Hotel Padmini Nivas is from Worah family (managed by Mrs. Harshada Worah), who purchased the heritage property in 1964 from Maharani Padmini Kuverba. Originally it was purchased as a summer family getaway, the property was converted into a family-run heritage hotel in 1979. The family-run hotel has not changed the

His Holiness the Dalai Lama The main attraction to go to Dharamshala was to be able to see him and hear his lectures. So after Palampur we came to Dharamshala. We two of us stayed in the city down below, in a private house probably owned by someone who had worked in Military. Our room was on ground floor. Garden around was colourful. There was a circular pond in the compound with rows of flowering greenery. Lovely birds use to come and sit there. Rest of the group had booked

We started our trip to Palampur. We flew to Chandigarh and took a taxi to Palampur. Palampur holds a special importance because it offers a perfect blend of unspoiled nature, slow-paced heritage, and soft adventure, without the typical commercial chaos of other hill stations. We passed through Yol Cantt (a prominent, historic military cantonment town) which sits directly on the primary highway connecting Dharamshala and Palampur. Our stay was planned to stay with a family w

In year 1984 we had gone to Shrinagar in Kashmir, for conference of Indian Society of Cardiology. The meeting was held on the edge of Dal lake at a convention centre, put up on a small patch of land projecting in the lake. Surrounding was beautiful. At the end of meeting, plan was to go to Ladakh. Along with us were my daughter and her friend - both around 16 years age. From Shrinagar we hired a local taxi to go to Leh. Sonmarg to Kargil On the first day we drove up to So

Even before I went to Japan we all knew about the tragedy that happened in Hiroshima. We also knew who was responsible for it. My second visit to Japan was in 1982. We went to Tokyo and Osaka. My husband who was Cardiologist had learned about this new Technology that we call Echocardiography. In 1978 when we went, there was a “ World Congress of Cardiology “ to attend which was held in Tokyo at newly built hotel named New Otani. There he had a chance to interact with doctor

My Wanderings Around Mumbai My father was a solicitor by profession and also a freedom fighter. We lived in a suburb of Mumbai, and every weekend he would take the family out for an outing in the car. Two of our favourite destinations were the famous lakes, Vihar and Pawai lakes, which were not very far from where we lived. We went there very often. Along the road was a huge water pipeline which carried drinking water to Mumbai from Tansa Lake. The surroundings were very gree

Meghalaya is a state in northeast India, with Shillong as its capital city. Meghalaya was formed on 21 January 1972 by carving out two districts from the state of Assam: the united Khasi Hills and Jaintia Hills, and the Garo Hills. The estimated population of Meghalaya in 2014 was 3,211,474. Meghalaya is a beautiful state in northeast India known as the "abode of clouds,”. Shillong as its capital, Cherrapunji as one of the wettest places, and amazing living root bridges. I s

Our first visit to USA came about because of our medical training. At that time most of the doctors went to England for post graduate studies. The story of how it happened is an interesting story. After completing his Post Graduate exam my husband began working in Cardiology section of our hospital. In those days in Mumbai Post Graduate speciality study was not available. At that time, a senior physician in our hospital had started a department for cardiac patients. It was du