Wandering into the world of unknown; burying doubts and the fears; I chose a path to follow; guided by heart's gentle whispers.
Where are you from? ‘India’ Hindu? Questions I and my friend were mostly greeted with by locals in Bali. It was a deja vu moment bringing memories of my time in Pokhara, Nepal, with a minor exception. Where are you…
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“Some journeys choose us. In their own mystical ways, they bring us to them!” When a friend sent me a note from a book, it was these words that got my attention. I was in Yuksom, a small town in western…
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What goes through your mind when you see a sunset?
Watching it on a beach at Murudeshwar one evening, I noticed that along with a number of thoughts, there was a lot of silence that filled me. And this poem is the result when I took a pen and started writing.
For years I wanted to backpack around Kerala but time never seemed to be on my side. It took a series of dramatic events to land me at the Kalaripayattu training and treatment ashram near Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram). I was there…
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At 4.30 am I found myself at the southernmost tip of India facing the vast expanse of water from three different sources, the Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea. I had a sleepless night, and after trying in…
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What is it like to travel to a place that has nothing? Nothing but dry red rustic earth as far as eyes could see! A few of us Square Trippers† wanted to experience just that! Only one place came to mind, Thar…
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Banging a log drum with two wooden logs in a Naga hut wasn’t what we envisioned when couple of us decided to travel to Nagaland. Yet, we found ourselves in a beautifully crafted tribal hut with people from Phom tribe…
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Leafless tall trees line the smooth two-way road from Srinagar to Kupwara, with a backdrop of a dry valley and occasional snow. A friend was on his way to Dardpora in Kupwara region and I had a perfect opportunity to…
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When some friends planned to go to Kashmir in December, I ruled it out without further thought. Freezing cold weather has never been my idea of fun or holiday. But as it happens, I found myself in Delhi reconsidering my…
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We seem to be traveling back in time, as we make our way to Jorhat in a crowded auto rickshaw on route to Majuli, the largest fresh water river island in the world. Hopping into a ferry just as it…
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