Dear Aayushi,
Thank you for making the Mumbai trip memorable. Two difficult days of mind-wrecking work turned much easier thanks to your company, and the mornings and evenings with you were the best antidotes to the zeher that came in between.
Anyway, there's something I've realised over the years: every time I spend some good time talking to a fascinating person like yourself, the conversations are lined with myriad shared interests, recommendations and reviews. But once we get home, we tend to forget most of it.
Human memory is a vivid montage of sensations but a fickle scribe of specifics.
— Parikh, 2026
To that end, I've compiled a list of links to various things, places and people we talked about and that you might find interesting.
As they say: dessert first.
Followed by a good fusion dish with a side of artisanal chocolate:
Or perhaps something tribal?
When you're missing home:
Speaking of home, these are the heavy metal rockers making your city proud across the globe:
Gives me goosebumps every single time!
But if that was too heavy, check out these brilliant poets and masterful musicians who tend to come up in discussions over dosa in Bali:
Or if you'd prefer a sweet feminine voice:
And if somebody TRAIs to disturb you while you're enjoying the music:
Pardon my terrible wordplay. You deserve better than that. Kanan does it better:
And here's some more humour for good measure:
That's all for now. Have a fabulous weekend, and enjoy the Sunday show.
Yours truly,
Darshak
PS: The oddly shaped concrete blocks on Mumbai shorelines are apparently called tetrapods.