Look around you
Continuing with my aim to get guest posts for you each quarter, I had requested Shreeram MV, an ace photographer, a good friend and one...
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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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May 31
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...
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May 3
More from Happy Accidents
I had recently written about how I had run into problems with accessing all my images which were scattered across multiple hard drives....
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Mar 8
Bharatpur's magical sunsets
It doesn’t happen suddenly. It also doesn’t happen at the same time. You first notice it in the waters. One moment they are contemplative...
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Feb 23
Learning to See
Creativity is work ethic. This sentiment was the main theme in one of David duChemin’s blog posts and one that made me sit up and think....
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Feb 9
Foggy Delights at Bharatpur
Bharatpur is bewitched. At least, in winter. Here, you don’t tumble out of a cupboard into a Narniaesque world. Instead, its a slow and...
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Dec 29, 2023
Pushkar...camels, companions, conversations and... a camera
Pushkar. I can’t remember exactly how Pushkar got imprinted on my mind. Of course, it was a usual quiz question in early years about...
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Dec 1, 2023
My moral issues with aerial photography
Our chopper swung sharply to the left, after speeding ahead of the running zebras and, as a single unit, the zebras took an immediate U...
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Nov 17, 2023
At the feet of a Super Tusker
“ I just want to see them. I don’t care if I can’t make a good photo. I just want to get the opportunity to see them.” These were my...
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Nov 3, 2023
In search of Giants
“ Are those elephants ?” “ No…just a mirage.” Followed by a chuckle. That was our guide, Lenny. “ What about those ?” “ Bushes.” Now it...
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Oct 6, 2023
A Giraffe walks into a bar...
He stood deep in the shadows. Silent. Unhurried. He badly needed a drink, but experience had taught him that its better to be cautious....
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Sep 22, 2023
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...
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Sep 8, 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...
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Aug 25, 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...
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Aug 11, 2023
Stories of Hope
On July 26th, 2023, the Forest Act was passed in the Indian Parliament. Predictably, with no discussion. Predictably, ignoring most of...
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Jun 2, 2023
A Property Dispute
There are occasions when it all neatly falls into place. Where you don't need words to tell a story, to paint a picture, to spin a yarn....
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Apr 7, 2023
In search of the Arctic Fox
I am back in Norway. This time focusing on wildlife on the other end of the size spectrum to polar bears which was the focus in my last...
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Mar 10, 2023
On the Importance of Rules
"Life is short, break the rules." ~ Mark Twain I was mildly confused. I was standing at the Mandovi beach, on the last leg of my trip and...
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Feb 10, 2023
In search of Flamboyance
If, from my work table, I move slightly to my left and stretch my arm to a rather neatly arranged row of books, somewhere in the middle,...
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Dec 30, 2022
Reflections...
2022 will stay in my memory a little more than most years do. Not because of a truly fabulous trip to Masai Mara early in the year, which...
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