I had the awesome opportunity to visit a village in Punjab for wedding and be fortunate to experience the famous Punjabi hospitality. It was a four-day affair with a 420-odd kilometer drive in either direction and plenty of driving around in the local area itself.
When I quit a regular job in 2008, taking out more time for myself was not one of the things I had planned on. It mostly happened as a result of, well, actually not having a lot to do at times. Eventually, I started travelling a bit, tried going for walks regularly, but it [...]
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Mesmerizing then, mesmerizing now.
Today, I have no stories to tell. There is only the faint glow of an old oil lamp, a flame from the wick steadily lighting up a warm circle, keeping at bay the night and its darkness. There should, ideally, be a breeze, but not today. There is only a loud stillness and the ebb [...]
The gap between “is” and “could have been” determines so much of who and what we are. Most of our lives are then spent trying to either overcome the gap or trying to overcome the fact that there is so much of a gap.
For most of my life I have never really wanted [...]
One of the more regrettable losses of my recent life is drifting farther away from my writing. I make half starts now and then, promising myself that I will persuade me to write more often, that the spark still lurks somewhere needing only a bit of gentle pushing, But, as time mercilessly grinds its [...]
Nothing spectacular about this one. It was a 10-day trip to get some errands done in Trivandrum, so it had precious little travel within the state involved in it. Otherwise, it was mostly work and short runs around town. I also got to experience the new Indigo flights to Trivandrum. Flew in on the early [...]
Did a trip with the family in Himachal over 4-days. Since my co-travellers were not accustomed to the kind of cold you are likely to experience in the north, the decision was made to play it safe and keep Kullu as the base. This opens up Manali, Kasol and Jalori as options within a 60 [...]
