Haresh Joshi

After insisting so much, finally my friends agreed to take risk and decided to throw party at one of my favorite restaurants in Pune, All Stir Fry at E-Square. I Guess one of the reasons is, they know that being born foodie and raised in family where women have excellent culinary skills, I am extremely finicky about what I eat and experiment a lot with my food (which generally people don’t like/want to do and most of them go with tried and tested menu. How boring!!!). I have been to All Stir Fry quite a few times and always loved the food. As my friends were new to the place I decided not to experiment and go with whatever I had earlier and liked. Vegetarians had no chance but to experiment as I never ate veg at All Stir Fry (BTW, the fact is I seldom eat veg rather refrain from eating veg while dining out :) ). This is one of the very few places in Pune where you get authentic oriental food unlike other restaurants where all soups taste like Manchow soup. Now lemme tell you ab

I always wanted to go to Ajanta-Ellora caves and Last weekend I finally visited the place... it was a 3 day trip to Ajanta, Ellora, Bibi ka makbara, Daulatabaad fort and Panchakki... First day was entirely spent at Ellora caves , there are 34 caves. As you move along the caves you realise that they start with influence of Buddhism then Hinduism and Jainism. Cave 16 and 32 are must visit and these caves still have remains of the wall paintings which are as old as more than 1500 years. Second day was at Ajanta caves (about 2.5 hrs drive from A’bad city). These are 29 caves arranged in inverted U shape around a point called View Point. As soon as you enter the first cave you drop your jaws looking at paintings on the wall and ceiling. It really made me wonder how many efforts it must have taken for those Buddhist monks to create such master pieces with rudimentary tools used then. After seeing Ajanta-Ellora I don’t find it worth mentioning about Bibi ka Makbara nad Panchakki (both