How Young Folk Singers Give My Rajasthan Backpacking Trip A Musical Twist

Throughout my journey I found many singers and musicians. Those I was looking for and even those I wasn’t. I also made many friends along the way who led me to beautiful sights and destinations I had never known existed. This video is about Danish Khan, Ladu Khan and Habib Dehar. The three young musicians who agreed to sing for us.

Trying To Lose My Way In A Forest

Once you get off the bus and find yourself in the over-crowded mall road/market, a figurative question mark forms in your imagination – why did I sit through that jumpy bus ride for 10 hours for this? The answer appears for those who are willing to walk some more, do a bit of a struggle with their backpacks in search of what they originally left home for – a bit of hard-to-find god damning peace of mind and that elusive scene without any asbestos roof or brick wall or electricity wire jutting into the scene…

Meeting Death At Pondicherry’s Manapet Beach

Ocean calamities have been a recurring threat to the coastline of Pondicherry but none of it did as much damage as the Tsunami of 2004. The beaches of Pondicherry are still peppered with fisherman colonies which sing about the wrath of nature. One of the worst hit villages, Pudukuppam, lies about 2 km to the right of the Manapet beach. Broken boats lie enmeshed in ipomoea climbers, sunk like corpses in the sand…

Exploring Nubra Valley – A Photo Story

With 2020 bringing us the Lockdown, I have had plenty of time to skim through travel photographs I collected last year. Looking back I realised 2019 was quite intense. There were a lot many journeys. Rajasthan, Leh, Arunachal. And even the time I spent in Delhi was full of explorations. I missed that this year,

Kolkata skyline just before Pujo 2019

If it rains before Pujo, it is said that Maa Durga is coming home on a boat. Here’s bringing you some moments from the storms which ushered in Durga Pujo 2019.

Why Do You Travel?

Why do you pack your bags and zip away? What do you go to find? What do you try to leave behind and what do you bring back? Why do you travel? 

Chhattisgarh’s Sirpur Has A Lot To Offer

Sirpur is best traversed on foot or by cycle. A land untouched by modernity and dotted by temples from various periods makes this an aesthetic experience…

Prashar Lake Trek

Most of the Prashar Lake trek is a good walk. But there are stretches which are steep and require advanced skills and good muscle power to see you through. The monsoon season has made some of it more challenging…

Unwinding at Jibhi

An innocuous mud trail leads us to the stream. From here we show some daring and wade through heavy currents. We are at the blue lagoon…

A Photo Story about the Camels of Bikaner

You’ll find the National Research Centre on Camel just off the Jodhpur bypass. Established almost 35 years ago in 1984, the centre today houses around 300 camels.