While trav­el­ling in Kalimpong last year, sit­ting in a local café hav­ing an evening snack I came across a rather nice look­ing glossy travel mag­a­zine. I was rather sur­prised when I saw that it was pub­lished out of Sikkim. Both the con­tent and the pho­tographs were of bet­ter qual­ity than a lot of other travel […]

If you want a short break, but don’t want to ven­ture out too far from the city, Nandi Hills is a good option. The only prob­lem though is that all sorts of crowds land up there by mid-morning and it seems more like a mela out there dur­ing the weekends.

When Shankar called say­ing he was going to the Wildlife Res­cue and Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (WRRC) and would I like to go along, I jumped at the oppor­tu­nity. The last time I went was with Usha and it’s been a while. A cou­ple of reha­bil­i­tated jack­als in their own enclo­sure It’s always amaz­ing to see Saleem at […]

A week­end at mag­i­cal Fringe Ford : a beau­ti­ful home­s­tay nes­tled amongst the hills in Wayanad.

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirro reflec­tion of what we are doing to our­selves and to each other.” — Gandhi It’s sad, it’s ter­ri­bly depress­ing and it’s out­right frus­trat­ing. One day, there’s a mas­sive tree tow­er­ing over the road pro­vid­ing much needed shade on the road. The […]

On the Feb 16/17 week­end along with a gang of friends trav­elled to Pondicherry for the Auroville marathon. Auroville turned 40 on Feb 28 and this was one of the events to com­mem­o­rate the occa­sion. Though I must admit that I shuf­fled and walked through most of this one since I had fallen and knocked […]

A reader, Smitha, in my last post reminds me that I’m not post­ing fre­quently and I think I owe my vis­i­tors loads of apolo­gies for that! It’s been an incred­i­bly excit­ing and busy Jan­u­ary / Feb­ru­ary with some inter­est­ing projects on the hori­zon so it’s been tak­ing up a lot of my time and focus. […]

A week or so ago, we went for a team lunch to a place called Unwind Island some­where on the Outer Ring Road. Don’t ask me why they call it that, I couldn’t really fig­ure out as there wasn’t an island in sight :) A few days ago, on the Xmas break, as we were being […]