I realised that loads of links on my travel page were not work­ing. Finally got around to fix­ing them and have also updated my 2007 travel sec­tion. I still need to add some of my lat­est travel reports from Agumbe and Bhutan. I often have peo­ple email­ing me or leav­ing com­ments ask­ing for sug­ges­tions etc. […]

The Ban­ga­lore Ultra is on Decem­ber 16 for those of you who want to reg­is­ter for it. It will be held at Hesaraghatta and the dis­tances are 26, 52, 78 and 104 kms. It is appar­ently the first time the ultra is being held in Ban­ga­lore (India?) and there are a few very brave souls […]

Update: Novem­ber 21: Finally, after more than a month of run­ning around the BTM branch man­aged to return the money back to my sis­ter. Thanks to all the read­ers for their sug­ges­tions and advice! And also to the reader who had left the email addresses of the con­cerned peo­ple at ICICI who we emailed. (He […]

I’ll start with a story that actu­ally ended well but I missed a few heart­beats in the begin­ning. On my return from Bhutan, I had a return flight from Bag­do­gra to Cal­cutta at 2.40 pm in the after­noon. When I reached the air­port around 12.10 pm (early for­tu­nately, I was to real­ize later), the Air […]

A very happy and safe Diwali to all of you! This sea­son, do spread the light around and not the air and noise pol­lu­tion please. For a lot of rea­sons, includ­ing envi­ron­men­tal and social. Indulge in your favourite sweets and cel­e­brate with friends and fam­ily. And if you do have to light crack­ers, please do so […]

I was talk­ing to Ravi when he sug­gested that I do a teaser on my Bhutan trip to start off with. I was telling him that since I’d taken loads of pic­tures (as usual!) it would take me some time to upload every­thing and write my trav­el­ogues. So here it is, just a lit­tle sneak […]

i met a lot of these lovely char­ac­ters on this trip. bhutan (i am happy to report) is filled with dogs and cats. the dark mys­te­ri­ous stony inte­riours of the dzongs and the monas­ter­ies seem find favour with cats espe­cially. the streets are filled with dogs — some rather cute and furry — with hair all […]

This is an effort to increase and encour­age rural tourism and sounds like a pretty good idea by Rural Zing. Accord­ing to the tag line, it’s “an Ini­tia­tive to con­nect urban and rural econ­o­my”. They have day long trip start­ing from Ban­ga­lore on Sat­ur­days and Sun­days. Con­tact for details: Mobile: 9886201103 Email — reservation@ruralzing.com You […]