constant chatter

twelve

2012-01-27T14:28:00.003+05:30

eleven

2012-01-26T02:50:00.004+05:30

ten

2012-01-25T14:58:00.001+05:30

Saturday night monster.

nine

2012-01-24T13:57:00.002+05:30

The cookie monster.

eight

2012-01-23T14:35:00.002+05:30

seven

2012-01-22T23:54:00.000+05:30

Latest to be mailed.

Check out my previous envelope!

six (instant cheese)

2012-01-21T20:49:00.000+05:30

Guess who has a polaroid camera?
Me. Yes. Really.
Once again thanks to my cousin Chetna.
I love you Chetna.
Did i tell you you're my favorite cousin?

five (raju's omelette)

2012-01-20T06:27:00.000+05:30

No, Raju is not my neighbour.

Raju's Omelette is a tiny little kitchen-come-restaurant that serves eggs and pav somewhere in Baroda, and i have to say, the best eggs i have ever had. They owe their deliciousness to impossible amounts of butter, decades of residual grease and their special formula-X secret masala.

The indigestion that sometimes follows is totally worth it.
Thank you Kalapi for introducing me! :)

That below is me. And a plate of boiled-egg tikka masala.
*drool.

four (RIP mac)

2012-01-19T14:01:00.000+05:30

You were my best friend for five years.

I miss you.
My mac stopped working recently. I feel a little lost without it. :(

my bug

2012-01-19T13:07:00.000+05:30

Isn't he sweet?
He was given to me by my cousin, Chetna. (thank you Chetna, you're awesome! :*)
I havn't come up with a name for him yet. Suggestions anyone?

(Watch him hit a block and turn in the video. It's adorable)

three (this is not a kite)

2012-01-18T03:23:00.000+05:30

Last week was the kite festival, Uttarayan, here in Gujarat. It is a beautiful festival full of fun and colour and, of course, lots of kites.

And if you, like me, are hopeless at getting a kite airborne, (despite copious running and jumping) Gujarati's generously offer you the option of buying balloons instead!

Even better, if you don't look the four-year-old-kite-flying-pro's in the eye you might not even feel silly.

two

2012-01-17T02:23:00.000+05:30

one

2012-01-16T12:06:00.000+05:30

And so, it begins.

sixty

2012-01-15T02:55:00.000+05:30

Tomorrow, i embark on Project Sixty.
Over the last year, i've been blowing hot and cold with my blog updates. Sometimes, the posts are overflowing other times my blog is in hibernation. :(
Well no more! For the next (count the fingers below) days, i am going to put up one post everyday on my blog. No excuses.
So don't forget to look out for the posts! (unless of course, i fail to put them up)

100!

2012-01-01T23:35:00.001+05:30

My hundredth post!

wooooooooo!

*firecrackers and celebration

And to think it took me just two years! (yes, I'm being sarcastic)

There are a 100 faces down there and i'm in there somewhere amongst them. Bet you can't find me!

The colour i'm using is Madras Marine, gifted to me courtesy Kalapi! :)

Check it out: http://www.ownacolour.com/

And, incidentally, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

testing testing..

2011-12-09T01:24:00.000+05:30

Whenever i start painting an illustration i keep a strip of paper beside me to test and prepare colours before i paint it in. The last illustration i made was so colourful that even the strip looked pretty by the time i finished!
I added a little me on top to finish it off!

letters are fun!

2011-12-04T20:27:00.000+05:30

I took a break from drawing on postcards and drew on an envelope instead.
I love writing letters and drawing on brightly coloured envelopes.
Letters make separation fun! :)

birthday yay!

2011-11-30T14:43:00.000+05:30

Tomorrow's my birthday!
Yay!
I'm going to be celebrating in Diu, a little beach town.
It's going to be a day of sun, sand, fried fish and beer!
Woooooooooooo! :D

Beaten Black and Blue

2011-11-28T14:52:00.001+05:30

This is one of the illustrations i made for a short story from a collection of stories by children, for children. The book is called 'By Us, For Us' and is being published by Katha. (check them out!)
It is another story form the same book in my previous post.
This particular story is called 'Beaten Black and Blue' and is about one politician's suitcase that saves India from the clutches of his corruption.
It's a lovely story. Do buy the book if you see it!
(click on the image to see more detail)

Rover the dog

2011-11-26T12:40:00.001+05:30

This is one of four illustrations i made for a short story.
It is part of a collection of stories written by children, for children, and illustrated by various people. The book is called 'By Us, For Us' and is being published by Katha.(Look them up!)
The book is being launched on the 29th and i'm extremely excited!
The story I illustrated is called Rover the dog, and it is a sweet story about Lila, who can't find her dog, Rover anywhere. She searches high and low and then finds him in the most unexpected place!

Do buy the book if you see it!

one of those days

2011-11-24T12:21:00.000+05:30

It's one of those days.
Everything seems wrong, just, wrong.
When nothing you do makes you feel better.
All you want to do is sit in the corner and cry.

twitterer

2011-11-10T22:23:00.001+05:30

My friend, Kalapi, had asked me to create an avatar of him for his public profile on Twitter. After making a few drawings, I sent him the final one along-with a scan of all the doodles around it. To my surprise he ended up using most of them!
I dislike twitter but i feel like visiting his profile just to see my drawing! :)

Shilpa

2011-11-09T17:38:00.000+05:30

Another book-converted-into-monster book, and oddly, my first female monster. (I've been neglecting gender equality!)

She's on her way to party.

Female monsters have busy social lives you know.

Also check out my friend Karno's monsters!

I think Ramola and Shilpa would have been very good friends.

sabhabathi

2011-11-08T14:30:00.000+05:30

I converted another book into a monster. This one is called Sabhabathi.
You can call him Sabby for short!

I quite enjoy converting my books into monsters.
I think i should make it a ritual.
You can see my first monster-book here.

dinesbhai

2011-11-06T20:34:00.000+05:30

I'm on a monster roll!

It occurred to me recently that i have been in Baroda for over 6 months and i've become quite fond of both the place and Gujarati people! High time then that i make a gujju monster, isn't it?

Meet Dineshbhai.

He's a sweet and rather shy guy.
He's the silent type.

He's gujju (obviously).

His favourite 'snakes' are kites, preferably sweet ones! :P

The photograph, unfortunately, is not mine, only Dinesh is. I drew him on a postcard i picked up in Ahmedabad.

halloween horns

2011-10-30T12:56:00.000+05:30

This halloween my friend wore an awesome pink wig with horns.
I want one too!

flipkart

2011-10-24T00:12:00.000+05:30

I am absolutely, totally, head-over-heels in love with flipkart! I love how books i can otherwise never hope to find arrive so deliciously packaged at my doorstep! My wishful wishlist is (as expected) just about endless and my obsession with it is bordering on unhealthy. I check it every single day and it takes me all my willpower to move my cursor away from that tantalising Buy Now button.

me h.

2011-10-14T16:07:00.000+05:30

petite éclairs

2011-10-09T15:51:00.000+05:30

Nowadays, I seem to swinging from drawing to cooking an awful lot.

My most recent adventure with the oven was petite éclairs. They weren't actually supposed to be petite, i couldnt find the right nozzle size so they ended up mini, but they're tasty anyway! (and they sound fancier when i say petite éclairs! :P)

Turns out eclairs are quite easy and fast to make. Unfortunately, they're even easier and faster to eat! This lot lasted for about 10 minutes before they were gulped down.

As you can see, my brother enjoyed them quite a bit! :)

garba

2011-09-29T02:28:00.000+05:30

This is how i garba.

postcard 10: home

2011-09-29T01:30:00.000+05:30

There is something extraordinary about the beach. It's so calming. No matter how sad, angry, unhappy i feel, a quiet hour at the beach with the salty sea breeze and the sand between my toes make me feel at peace.

2011-09-27T20:51:00.000+05:30

I was flipping through my log recently and found a forgotten doodle. I really ought to have put this up a very long time ago!
For Easter last year my friend Vishnu gave some of us the most delicious chocolate bunnies to eat. Over the next few weeks our fridge was littered with headless, butt-less and various other parts-less bunnies. I figured their conversation in the recesses of my fridge went something like this.

This is what the actual chocolate bunny looked like.

You can see the bunny Aaju received, here.

postcard 9: metamorphosis complete

2011-09-27T02:23:00.000+05:30

Finishing off what i started!

postcard 8: *cough

2011-09-25T22:32:00.000+05:30

Asthama problems. Several month's worth of dust accumulated around the junk lying in my room finally got to me.

My lungs were complaining. :(

stamp tramp

2011-09-25T19:59:00.000+05:30

stampFor as long as i can remember i've loved rubber stamps. When i was a kid i would steal my dad's office stamps and ink pad and stamp them all over my books (and an occasional wall).

Recently, (joy oh joy!) Kalapi made me one as a gift.

It is awesome.

(Most available surfaces in my room are now stamped with my name.)

postcard 7: filters

2011-09-25T02:45:00.000+05:30

I bought my Gujarati friend (and myself) a set of lovely tamil stainless-steel coffee filters.

I even got his initials inscribed on it.

He seemed pretty pleased with my gift! :)

postcard 6: cheers! *hic

2011-09-23T01:08:00.000+05:30

Celebrating my father's 55th birthday!

postcard 5: de-moustaching

2011-09-22T15:22:00.000+05:30

There is a woman in chennai whose hands are like magic with those nerve-wrecking parlour-processes. So when i know there's a visit coming up i let my moustache build to record breaking lengths in the comfortable knowledge that she's going to make me look beautiful again.
Painlessly.

a hop, skip and jump

2011-09-22T02:26:00.000+05:30

I've always wanted long hair to play with.

postcard 4: retail therapy

2011-09-21T15:23:00.000+05:30

Spent the day shopping.
Hurray for retail therapy!

postcard 3: raindrops are falling on my head

2011-09-20T19:41:00.000+05:30

There's something mesmerising about the rains.

postcard 2: library madness

2011-09-19T19:32:00.000+05:30

If Baroda has one flaw, it's the lack of a good library. Which is why i broke into a spontaneous jig of joy and skipped around like a lunatic in my chennai library (stunning the other innocent and rather apprehensive customers).

The librarian didn't even blink though. He's gotten used to it.

*sigh. Books are delicious!

postcard 1: the heat was hot

2011-09-19T04:06:00.000+05:30

Recently, i got the chance to spend a few days in my hometown, Chennai.
Chennai is hot, humid, eternally muggy and my favourite city in the world! However, after my family moved away, opportunities to visit have become precious and far between. :(
While i was there this time, i decided to document my trip by creating, at the end of each day, a postcard of the event that stuck out most in my mind.
I am now left with 10 postcards summing up my trip (that i shall now put up in order received).

The heat in Chennai was very hot. :I

cookies are meant for seeing

2011-08-27T18:23:00.000+05:30

After the long spell of collecting cobwebs that my blog has been forced to endure i've decided to start with something sweet. And edible.

I'd been doodling and eating an awful lot lately so i struck inspiration one day and decided to combine the two into one pastime.

The following (with generous help from my mum in the baking process) is what resulted.

The type cookies are with the help of typogeek Kalapi (by 'help of' i mean i started making a few letters, gave up half way and let him convert the wrecks into pretty type)

We then had a complete ball icing the cookies and messing up my table.

After several hours of applying and eating colourful icing though i couldnt look at my finished cookies in the eye let alone eat them so they were duly munched up by my brother. :(

dip-ship

2010-11-16T14:04:00.000+05:30

This is a sneak peek of the book i made for my diploma project. It's a peek because i dont have the time to upload more right now :( I'm preparing for my final jury coming in two days.

Wish me luck!

work work work

2010-10-15T01:51:00.000+05:30

I've been so busy with my diploma project, i havn't had time to do anything else in what seems like forever! It's either draw draw draw, paint paint paint or stare stare stare at the computer.

Last time i was on the comp i switched on an app that tracks my cursor movement. This is what my cursor's escapades looked like after a few hours.

I wait for the time when i can spend my time sleeping instead of all this working.

an apple a day..

2010-09-13T17:27:00.000+05:30

keeps windows away!
ok im joking.
It keeps the doctor away as well...
Its called retail therapy :P

au revior

2010-09-06T23:54:00.000+05:30

My brother has left for Paris for his studies.

Oddly enough i think i miss him :(

One of our last moments together in Bangalore was spent trying to get a decent picture of the two of us.

The picture didn't turn out so decent so i just decided to draw us instead... :l

abode illustrator

2010-09-04T01:33:00.000+05:30

It really does feel like we live in Illustrator the amount of time we spend on it!

My friend cracked this joke in the course of a conversation and i found it quite funny so i decided to draw it..

immovable

2010-08-30T11:40:00.000+05:30

sticks and stones may break my bones,

but words are what condemn me.
Why are people's perceptions so immovable?

Once again IF has offered me a topic that relates to my project!

I am currently doing a project on linguistic conflict and its relation to identity. This illustration is part of that as well.

I would be BEYOND grateful if you could take one minute to give me your interpretation of this image. Feel free to interpret it any way you want.!

Thank you so much!!

You can see what i am doing in my project here

muthu

2010-08-29T19:37:00.000+05:30

This is my newest character.

Meet Muthu.
He's ferocious.

I've decided i'm going to make a series of narratives with him.

So keep checking my blog occasionally to catch the tragedies that befall him.

(You can clearly see he's the tragedy type from the expression on his face)

why does it always rain on me?

2010-08-27T01:11:00.000+05:30

elixir thy name is coffee

2010-08-26T19:02:00.000+05:30

the key

2010-08-25T22:16:00.000+05:30

rakshabandhan

2010-08-24T21:59:00.000+05:30

Today is rakshabandhan and im supposed to tie a rakhi for my brother. Unfortunately he's too far away and frankly i had forgotten until he sent me a hate-sms saying i suck.

Thus, in order to prove my love for him, i bought a rakhi and made this.

Since i can't send him one, he can print this, cut out the rakhi and, uh.. stick it on his arm? :l

:) Take a look at the packaging for the rakhi. It's quite interesting.

Here are some of the details...

the air was thick with words

2010-08-24T10:12:00.000+05:30

I need a favour from everyone checking this post. I am currently doing a project on linguistic conflict and its relation to identity. This illustration is part of that (but it also seemed to fit the theme to me).

I need people to give me their interpretation of this image so if you could take a minute to tell me what you see in this i would be really grateful. You can be as detailed as you want.

You can see what i am doing in my project here

yegyeshwariyer joins the monster gang

2010-08-19T10:49:00.000+05:30

I decided to convert my new book into a monster. I'm not quite sure why i decided to, it just happened. Here my book was, relaxing contentedly, enjoying its self being a whole rectangle, when it got snatched and converted into a vaguely monster shape. Draw a few teeth, eyes and loads of hair and my monster book is ready.

I named it Yesyeshwariyer after my great great grandfather. I hope he doesn't end up hating me...

the latest log

2010-08-09T17:29:00.000+05:30

These are a few pages from my latest log.
The scans are pretty lousy though.

going geometrical

2010-08-06T19:52:00.000+05:30

Was messing around with illustrator for sometime yesterday.

This is actually based on an image i remember seeing before. Wasn't upto creating my own trees so i decided to go triangular..

the modern vishnu

2010-08-01T17:08:00.000+05:30

Vishnu has been pestering me to send him a postcard forever in return for the one he sent me from dubai. I finally made one and gave it to get him off my case.

As usual it was the post-first-draw-later method.

I give you... the modern vishnu!

I love making and sending postcards. Provided ofcourse that i get a response. So if anyone out there (hopefully someone out there is reading my blog) wants a postcard courtesy moi, tell me i shall send!

2010-07-26T15:51:00.001+05:30

star gazing

2010-07-22T23:38:00.000+05:30

PROPER!!!

2010-07-22T17:57:00.000+05:30

A lot of my seniors used to say this. I miss hearing it sometimes...

sometimes i feel pretty alien..

2010-07-22T17:24:00.000+05:30

posties fresh and luverly

2010-07-19T13:31:00.000+05:30

I seem to be on a roll with the postcard thing.
Here are some more i made to send...

rupture

2010-07-15T13:13:00.000+05:30

sometimes i wonder..
when did things become so surreal?

My friend seemed to really like this one so he took a few prints of it in a small size when he went printing. It looks really lovely in that tiny size...

damn

2010-07-14T15:32:00.000+05:30

im stressing...

i can't seem to concentrate...
*sigh...

send.. then fill !

2010-07-11T10:24:00.000+05:30

This is a postcard i sent to my friend vishnu from Kolkata.

I didn't really have the time to fill it in cal so i sent it to myself, forgot about it for 2 months, recieved a postcard from him, remembered, drew on it and then handed it over to him.
He still cribs about my post-card process at times... :P

My postcard on Vishnu's blog.

the auuuugggh state of mind

2010-07-07T04:38:00.000+05:30

well...

My diploma project has well and truly started now. Everyone is back, the founder director has given her speech and the starting flag has been waved. The race is on!

I was going through the copious notes and mind-mapping i had made in my log while ideating for my proposal and i came across this little sketch i made while i was getting frustrated.

It pretty much sums up how i was feeling then. And i have a feeling there are a lot more of these moments to come!

say cheese!

2010-06-29T21:24:00.000+05:30

Its a pretty late post but this was strawberry cheesecake me and my friend divya made in Baroda for a dinner we were going to have with our friend Kalapi.

Unfortunately, Kalapi got conjunctivitis at the last minute and could'nt make it to dinner. And divya being divya never came home to eat it! I hogged most of it and saved the last slice for the two :)

It was YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...!!!

You can get the recipie from my mum' blog - http://chittiskitchen.blogspot.com/

It's absurdly easy to make!
These are only two slices of the whole cake :)

The cheesecake itself took barely any time to make. Once we were done, divya and i stuffed ourselves. We combined some biscuit base from a previous endeavour with coffee icecream and chocolate chips and sauce.

Simple but delicious!

We washed our impromptu dessert with some pizza and lemonade.

It was a fun day amidst all the diploma headache! :)

when work fails...

2010-06-29T20:08:00.000+05:30

My mind was too cluttered to work so i tried to take some time off to experiment in the kitchen. Made a few tart bases. I kind of lost interest after that so i just topped it off with an enormous scoop of mocha ice cream and sauce.

It tasted lovely despite the lazy improvisation. The crisp base complimented the cold ice cream beautifully.

*sigh...

It was definitely more fun than working!

just dessert

2010-05-28T11:10:00.000+05:30

I've been trying to illustrate for quite a few days now but somehow i cant bring myself to sit down and do it. I finally decided that maybe i was trying the wrong craft. i decided to cook instead

Since all i seem to be doing these days is eat, i made some chocolate cake with some really sinful truffle icing to help matter along.

I of course got liberal help from my mum, the expert, who probably would not have trusted me alone in the kitchen even if i wanted her to go!

my mum, using the rare opportunity of having someone else cook for her, and having a good go at the cake.

embroideries

2010-05-26T00:16:00.000+05:30

I know i know. Its been forever since i posted anything. In my defence, i have been preoccupied, first with my pre-diploma, then my feet's rendezvous with glass and finally with finding excuses for why i've been sitting around on my bum and not doing anything.

Now that the inactivity on my blog has gotten to me i have decided to put up my so called excuse for not doing anything.

I hope you have a strong stomach. It's not pretty :(

the morning after :(

after two weeks of healing

Aritificial Intelligence?

2010-04-02T18:00:00.000+05:30

a doodle i made while i was supposed to be working... i seem to be making a lot of these lately... :(

*sigh

2010-03-28T18:45:00.000+05:30

Sometimes its hard to heal what lies beneath...

I've been feeling low the last few days :(

chai was here

2010-03-26T23:44:00.000+05:30

Final images for the characters i made and posted previously.

coffee is a band-aid for the soul

2010-03-26T01:20:00.001+05:30

taken for a ride

2010-03-25T03:30:00.000+05:30

a random something

enter

2010-03-24T15:01:00.001+05:30

toaster craze in context

2010-03-24T13:29:00.000+05:30

These are the illustration laid out with the article. (For your information, the article isn't really about a toaster craze. It's an interesting article about a new generation of nature writers and about mankind in general moving away from nature)

ooooooooo! toasterrr!!!

2010-03-24T13:23:00.001+05:30

Don't get scared! This is an illustration that i made for an editorial piece.
Click on it! It looks a lot better when you can actually see some detail!!

pressure

2010-03-24T13:08:00.000+05:30

yea. ok. i know. I haven't posted for AGES. The workload in college has been enoRmous of late because i decided to be flighty and shift from course to course. It's an oddly bitter sweet feeling; being overloaded with work you like. Since i took such a long break i'll upload a few thing at a go now. I'll start off with an image of how i've been feeling (somewhat) this last week.

Tamil Pride :)

2010-03-09T17:25:00.000+05:30

Apparently this is a really old video but i just saw it today and i simply could NOT stop laughing. If you're tamil and you haven't seen this yet, watch it NOW.

Blackboard

2010-03-08T14:21:00.000+05:30

I've finally decided to put up some of my internship work. Last summer i worked with a publishing house called Tulika and helped conceptualise and subsequently illustrate a book for them. It's called blackboard and is now available in book stores in god-only-knows-how-many languages. (Please buy a copy!) These are 6 of 18 pages. To see the rest you can pick up a copy!! (or wait until i post them up out of lack of anything else to post)
You can buy the book here.

Gah.

2010-03-08T01:09:00.001+05:30

I don't feel like working. I'm tired of college. All i feel like doing is running back home, which is now, unfortunately, in Baroda. Unfortunately, because it's Chennai i want to run to.(Don't mistake me Baroda's a beautiful place. I just prefer Chennai. You can't help but be partial to the place you've spent 13 yrs of your life.) Right now i wish i were one of these damn birds. Flying around in the sunset instead of staring guiltily at my computer screen updating my blog instead of working. :(

The picture was, ironically, taken in Baroda during a bird-watching jaunt with my mother.

Pavitra pin-up

2010-03-07T20:32:00.000+05:30

I seem to have monsters on my mind for some reason. Pavitra here has a pin on the back of her head. Gruesome though that is, it makes her handy to attach onto my bag. :)

Admittedly these aren't the best pictures in the world. It's too late at night to take good ones, so i'll leave them for now and replace them soon hopefully. :l

Yakkity yak

2010-03-04T20:32:00.000+05:30

AHA!!! I knew i MUST have something to post!
I made this recently as a header to put on top of the blog. I simply hated it as soon as i put it up :(
Im in the process of thinking of another one but till then i might as well put up my attempt!

lights will guide you home

2010-03-04T20:15:00.000+05:30

Feels like i haven't put anything up on my blog for ages!
The impossible has happened. Not only have i started this damn blog, i've also gotten addicted to it. :(
Various possibilities for illustrations have been making jelabi patterns in my head for some time now but i simply haven't had the time to draw anything. However out of desperation to put something or the other up, here are some photos i took recently for a photo essay assignment in college.
I travelled to the city, alone, in the middle of the night to take these. To put it mildly it was a pretty eventful night. Me, my tripod and camera almost got run over, blown away, picked up, molested and arrested.

:) Needless to say, i had loads of fun!

monster murali

2010-02-25T14:44:00.000+05:30

Aaju's inner monster manifests itself on her shoulder.

Meet murali. He's the newest monster in the house.
His inability to close his mouth and severe dental problems have left a permanent expression of trauma on his face.

pages from yet another log

2010-02-22T17:53:00.000+05:30

zoom into the second page. Batman's hanging in there for his dear life :)

do trees feel cold?

2010-02-20T13:15:00.000+05:30

burning

2010-02-20T13:11:00.000+05:30

to dessert or not?

2010-02-20T13:03:00.000+05:30

Despite his heavy lunch, he was tempted to have a little dessert.

all-in-one

2010-02-19T22:15:00.000+05:30

This is the back cover i proposed for the book i made with tulika called Blackboard. It didnt get used in the final version though... :(

things to do with a phone torch...

2010-02-19T20:26:00.000+05:30

as part of some work for my current project i did some light painting with a couple of friends. we ended up with an interesting amphibian and a rather lost dinosaur...

Thank you Divya for making Bharat look so beautiful... :)

its a sign!

2010-02-19T19:35:00.001+05:30

:D i crack myself up sometimes :D

hawt

2010-02-19T18:32:00.000+05:30

summer has decided to make its presence felt in bangalore... it's HOT.
i find myself whiling away time thinking of all things refreshing.. so much so that i dug out this old photo of mine and made it my wallpaper.

i keep telling myself that soft drinks are bad for health. i usually manage to aviod them for large periods of time and then succumb to a coke.
who cares about pesticides anyway? :(

adrift

2010-02-18T23:49:00.000+05:30

That's right folks! What better way to get around than with one's handy lil' umbrella? :)

sand and tanned

2010-02-17T23:59:00.000+05:30

A little more than a year ago i went to the andamans as part of college. We're still not sure what they wanted us to get out of it. As a matter of fact, i don't thing they do either...
We went to Port Blair, Wandoor and Havelock. It was absolutely-mind-blowlingly beautiful from the mangroves to the forests to the beaches to the underwater corals and sealife to the breathtaking sky at night. We spent ridiculous amounts of time lazing in the sea. A year later and most of us still have a circular tan on our back courtesy the sun and the swimsuits.
*sigh... I still dream about it sometimes.