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“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”
– Anthony Bourdain
The memories of what I took from my travels. Here.
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Hello, Arctic…here I come !
As you read this, I would have either just reached the northern most inhabited place on this earth – Longyearbyen – or set off aboard the...
May 31, 2024
Meet…The Bakarwals of the mountains
I would have loved to have spent a few quiet days after the trek. Any trek gives you time to think during those long walks alone, ensures...
Sep 22, 2023
Trekking from Kargil to Kashmir
It all started rather innocuously. As it usually does. A good friend, S, suggested we do a trek. Something light and easy, nothing...
Sep 8, 2023
All Creatures Big and Small
“ Oh so where is your next trip ? “ “Goa in August.” “ Oh but it would be raining.” “ Yes. That’s why.” “ Huh ?” “ Oh, am not going to...
Aug 25, 2023
Field Notes from Norway
I am back home. From near zero and sub zero degree temperatures, straight into the boiling cauldron that Bangalore has become this year....
Apr 21, 2023
Have you walked in a forest ?
And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul - John Muir My footsteps gave off a wet, slightly squelchy sound as I walked. ...
Nov 4, 2022
In search of the Himalyan Brown Bear
“ So, do you live here or are you visiting ? “ “ I have come for a visit.” “ Where are you going ? “ “ Drass…Kargil.” A short silence...
Jan 16, 2022
The Other Panda
Kung Fu Panda, the movie, was a runaway success. As a series, the movie grossed over $1.8 Billion and is the tenth highest grossing...
Jul 2, 2021
The Eloquence of Light
The eloquence of light Straight off…the heading for this post is not an original one. A few days back, while randomly surfing, I saw an...
Mar 8, 2020
Tales from the Mara II – Siligi, Supermom
Siligi. It meant, ‘ The Dependable’. A better name couldn’t be there for a cheetah mom with six cubs. Siligi had started of with seven...
Jan 19, 2020
Tales from the Mara I – The lil’ brave cub
When we first saw them, they were two tiny dots, one much smaller than the other, in a sea of a lovely shade of light green. The Mara had...
Jan 5, 2020
Tales from Brazil III – ’tis rainin’ jaguars !!!
“ We got a sighting.” The handset crackles, voices exchange messages and those are the magic words from Fabiano, uttered unbelievably...
Oct 6, 2019
Tales from Brazil II – on the Transpantaneira
Transpantaneira. The highway to nowhere. For some reason, the story of this highway has always fascinated me. Somewhere in the early...
Sep 29, 2019
The Relentlessness of the Auden’s Col trek
Once you have lived with mountains Under the whispering pines And deodars, near stars, And a brighter moon, With woodsmoke and mist Sweet...
Jul 8, 2018
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