Pondicherry: The stillness of being

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 face [...]

One more for Mangalore…

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, ethereal, [...]

A visit to Uttaranchal and Delhi

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 girls [...]

Random ramblings on urbanization

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 first [...]

Living out your dreams

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 six [...]

Weekend at Coorg

It’s been weekend camping at Coorg. I am too sleepy to write about it now. But, more follows soon

Brahmagiri

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, Brahmagiri [...]

Impressions of 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 was [...]

Christmas In Bangalore

I found myself going back to an article I had written awhile ago for IndiaInfo…
The Global Celebration
Come December, and the nipping bite of winter enters the air. Then, as one scrambles from the chilly blackness of the night into the warmth of a well-lit living room with a cotton-covered Christmas tree, the tang of home-made [...]

Notes from Velankani

There is little to distinguish this temple town from the scores of human habitations that dot the Tamil Nadu landscape. Except an unusual interaction between two cultures, moulding the destiny of the people of that land. This then is the story of Velankani.
It was off the shores of Velankani that Dutch sailors in the throes [...]