Indian Towns I’d Love to Live In
It’s never enough! That’s the one thought I’m left with, when I’m leaving a place. I’m just short of breaking out into Malayalam (in my head), but I still feel I haven’t done enough of Kerala. I recognize most people on atleast 25 ghats of Varanasi and can find my way through the narrowest galli […]
Best Travel Companions On the Road The last two years have been terribly hectic and altogether delicious. Back to back travels, living out of a bag, fingers frayed away typing and slightly thicker glasses – the kind of fatigue that makes you sigh in contentment. With more than comfortable hours spent on the roads, I […]
The Mistress of Dodda Mane
“ You knoooowwww, we lost so many expensive antiques”, she huffs with a twisted pout! I indulge her with furrowed brows, “Really”? And then vomit some more questions. “But tell me more. How was it? Who all were here? Was the entire shooting done here? Where did they stay? Where did YOU stay while they […]
No rain drenched wrinkled feet!
I hate monsoons. I hate them because they are cripplingly and hugely depressing! They obstruct movement, they are the nemesis to crispy dry clothes I love so much and they impair all ‘scenic’ views when I’m travelling. Every time someone speaks of ‘rain washed’ mountains, ‘drops of rain on their cheeks’ and the ‘child like […]
City Trawl
While we gear up with ample wonder and go about exploring other cities and towns, our own city is never on the mind! With new hubs to hang out and most of my time spent travelling outside Bangalore, I often give the iconic MG road area a miss. So glad I made an effort to […]
On a ‘Great Stay’ Trail!
Its been a great last month! A wish come true guide book and a chance to travel a lot into the Western Ghats- hoping that such luck is gonna hang around for some time! Considering my love for tea, there’s no doubt that I love the Nilgiris trail. While the neat tea-scaped hills never fail […]
Goa – anytime!
2nd day of the Goa Carnival Beginners’ Workshop!Already downed some refreshing ‘Cocum’ juice and all about aperture, shutter speed, ISO, framing, composition and more..The fishing dock at Panjim was our first too – great photo ops amidst the pristine rising sun and the carcass of sea life all around! Energetic place…. Heading out to the […]
Bangalore brooding…
I often shudder at the thought of going to the centre of the town – to the illustrious ‘M.G Road’! Who would want to have under-dressed mannequins brazenly thrusting their angular shimmering bodies at them or be proximate to the bellowing machines heaving concrete up the metro construction? Surprisingly the trip didn’t turn out all […]
Kaziranga Recce for 2011, 16/12
Waking up to more roosters, a bleak field and lush tea plants outside the cottage. Some more of the fantastic tea and all set for the jeep safari in the Western range. The drive in the jungle turned out pretty worth while as we spotted wild elephants with a new born, some wild buffaloes and […]
Mon Recce for 2011, 14/12
Camping in the middle of Phejin’s Dad’s tea estates seems like a yummy idea. Imagine getting up in the morning for a top view of the tea fields below. The trip to Chingphoi and Wanchung, a bit of a bummer as we can’t do the trek below to the side – its way too long. […]
Mon Recce for 2011, 13/12
Started the day by a short hike to the stone which demarcates the Indian – Burma border in both Hindi and Myanmar language. Got to know that there are still villages which lie in no man’s land – the Konyaks there are clothless and don’t belong to either side. A trek is there is almost […]
Mon Recce for POTM 2011 11/12
Love that the clothes are getting crispy dry in the mountain sun finally. Helsa Cottage is definitely a ‘Getoff’ place. 4 local cottages on the outskirts of Mon village. Have lovely balconies in the huts from where one can see the village activities subsiding – the red Christmas stars come up sporadically in the mountains […]