Writing practice

The first time I used maps was on Yahoo maps to navigate from to place to place in the US. Remember this was the pre mobile era... But I was astonished that it could work with clockwork precision... While we were taught to read the US Atlas ( I forget the name) by our manager... We kept it as a back up mostly. I remember people saying how it will never work in India.. But cut to now and maps... Google maps works very well in India... I am not great with directions. Especially indoors in buildings..I routinely lose my way. And once I step out from a building first few times, you can be sure that whatever direction I take will only be the wrong one... When we are about to visit a new place, I spend sometime looking at maps and relative locations and create an imagination of it in my head. I don't create it.It happens. And then when we get there, it looks different. Every single time. And the new image wipes out the old visualisation in my head.It cannot be unseen.There...

Very no(i)sy The scent of jasmines and silk in a wedding The aroma of fresh filter coffee As you walk into the house, by the smell, you guess what is being cooked The familiar scent at a familiar home The sweet notes in a forest The warm smell of burning wood (in kitchens of olden days) The scent of a burning candle The pious notes of incense The mellifluous notes of rose water and sandalwood The fresh smell of a book The notes of an old book The tingling perfume of someone you love The un-describable smell you recognize while snuggling into your own bed The cold smell of a railway berth The sweet smell of roadside tea The smell that says home The wafting aromas of a wayside eatery The stealing notes of someone elses food nearby you... The smell of newly unpacked electronics The fragrance of a fresh bath The familiar of an old cat/dog The smell of luggage opened The aroma of cinnamon (mostly abroad) The scents from a perfume stand T...