This year, I brought in my birthday in an unusual way. I joined Photography on the Move at the Goa Carnival, and spent the day indulging myself in one of my favourite passtimes – photography. I plan to repeat this every year now, use the day to take off to some place still unexplored. [...]
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A new year begins at the Goa Carnival
Posted: March 20, 2011 in Life and Living, TravelTags: Goa. Goa carnival
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Memories of Goa, magic and discovery
Posted: November 29, 2009 in TravelTags: Anjuna, Baga, Calangute, Candolim, Chapora, Goa, Old Goa, St Catherine's Chapel
If there are two Indian seaside destinations that have always whispered to my soul, they are Goa and Pondicherry. Pondicherry is my favourite of the two, and yet Goa has also always had a charm of its own. If Pondicherry has been the place that I have visited to find myself, I have always been [...]
I arrive in Pondicherry again. It must be at least five years since the last time I visited. As in the case of my previous three visits, I arrive here once again when my spirit needs reviving. Amongst other things, my work on my book has taken me through many twists and turns, and I [...]
One more for Mangalore…
Posted: September 20, 2008 in Life and Living, TravelTags: Architecture, Attack on churches, Indian Christian, Karnataka, Mangalore church, Milagres, St Aloysius College
Among the Christian institutions that received threats yesterday was the St Aloysius College. The threats state that cadres from different states are ready to attack them, besides 80 suicide bombers. When I visited Mangalore for a wedding in the family a couple of months ago, one of the monuments that moved me with its haunting, [...]
A visit to Uttaranchal and Delhi
Posted: August 29, 2008 in TravelTags: Corbett, Delhi, Nainital, Qutub Minar, Uttarakhand, Uttaranachal
With the Independence Day giving us a long weekend, a group of friends and I decided to take the rest of the week off and travel. Our destination was the Corbet National Park and Uttaranchal. (That also explains why I have been away for awhile.) After a brief stop over at Delhi, our gang of [...]
Random ramblings on urbanization
Posted: June 7, 2008 in TravelTags: Delhi, environment, India, traffic, urbanization, Yamuna
A brief trip to Delhi brought along with it some random ramblings on urbanization. I write about it here only so that I may not forget… After all, being a traveler does give you a unique perspective and you notice details that could be missed by more accustomed eyes. This was of course not the [...]
It’s a great thing to meet people who are living out their dreams. So it was on the weekend to Coorg. We camped at S’s coffee estate in the middle of nowhere. We first caught site of her, a distant trouser clad figure, as we trooped towards our campsite at the slightly outlandish hour of [...]
It’s been weekend camping at Coorg. I am too sleepy to write about it now. But, more follows soon
Each trek with getoff ur ass has the potential to be an inward journey. Sometimes you discover a new resilience within yourself. Sometimes you meet old friends or simply discover new ones. So was it with the weekend trip to Brahmagiri. Located on the border between Coorg in Karnataka and the Wayanad district of Kerala, [...]
Impressions of Hyderabad
Posted: July 16, 2006 in TravelTags: Andhra Pradesh, Char Minar, Hyderabad
I was at Hyderabad last weekend for a recruitment drive and just want to pen down some of my impressions of the city as I saw it. We landed in the new Hyderabad part of the city and made our way to our hotel. The planning that had gone into this part of the city [...]
