Siddhi Bhosale

  After spending the last few days of 2025 in Gujarat, I realised that it's not the place, it's the people we meet at those places, who decide whether we like that place or not! And with Gujarat, this was the second time that I fell for the state because of the kindest souls who treated me with so much love and hospitality. The first time I visited Gujarat was when I was in class 6th during my summer vacation. I remember telling everyone I was going to Gujarat, because up till then, we used to visit Gwalior in summer vacations ( https://sidthisside.blogspot.com/2025/05/summer-holidays-in-gwalior.html ), but a year before that, my grandparents had shifted back to Maharashtra, so this time we were visiting my maternal grandmother’s sister, who stayed in Vadodara. She had been insisting on our visiting her for as long as I can remember, almost once every week, she called at 3 pm sharp, which used to be the time when Mumma was asleep, and I had my T.V time ( https://sidthisside.bl...

  After watching the movie "Yeh Jawani hai Deewani" (YJHD), Udaipur made it to my bucket list. Since then, watching a sunset at a lake in Udaipur had been my top priority. But I had less than 48 hours in the city of lakes or the Venice of East as it is known and so many places to be ticked off from my wishlist. When I reached it was well past sunset and I thought that I missed one out of the two sunset that I could have witnessed. But then after a little bit of rest, one of our enthusiastic cousins pepped us to go for a stroll along the Fateh Sagar Lake, which was just in front of our hotel and then we all wrapped ourselves in sweaters and monkey caps as it was freezing cold outside and headed out. We were all walking in a straight line one behind the other as one side there was this speedy noisy heavy traffic flow and on the other side was the lake flowing at its own slow pace as if representing the parallel of fast moving time and the slow pace of life. Well I was sad that ...