Highlighted senses

I m forcing myself to type something right now. So many posts have already been blown away by the fast wind that crashes on my window sill as the bus runs across the city.  I just want to write something which is not a term paper or an assignment or a draft report or a [...]

Things I wanna do before I turn 30

This time I didn’t make any new year resolutions or celebrations. But circumstances pushed me to dream harder. To make bigger plans. I don’t see much gay or fun in recent present so making long term plans. Less than five years are left before I turn 30, and there are few things I wanna do/have [...]

Hampi Adventure

Ok, I got to admit the place sucks! Oops… let me re-phrase. The place sucks for everyone who is not a photographer. Still few eyebrows raised? mmmm.. I would re-re-phrase. The place sucks for those who are not photographers and who make the terrible mistake of hiring a guide. Guided tour is what everyone tells [...]

Obssessed

Every day at lunch I finish food asap and google “roopkund”. With no field attachment plans finalising I am dreaming about Roopkund more and more everyday. For those weho are completely unaware of what I am talking about, must click:
The Roopkund Adventure
A wonderful travelogue and travel diary.
I want to go there in June, but that [...]

I am not going!

So basically in order to keep up with the latest fashion of getting sick every month resulting in frequent visits to toilets and chemist shops, I feel sick again just a week before the YHAI saurkundi pass trek. It came as an after effect of attending a wedding, which I was doing after a period [...]

The unusual guide

Technically Mr Negi wasn’t our guide. As in, he didn’t take us up the narrow path on to a trek. But he guided us to whatever hiking/treking we did in Narkanda. He works with the government mountaineering and sports cell in Narkanda which is a branch of the Manali headquarters. It was due to his valuable suggestions that we could [...]

Distorted Reflections

Whenever I cross the distance between bus stand/railway station/airport and the destination in a new city, almost always in an auto, this gush of thoughts cross my mind. In Bombay, I just stare out and remember all those bollywood movies where this scene is depicted – a new migrant enters the city of dreams and [...]

Winter 2007 Narkanda

It was one of those trips which are a balance between impulsive and planned trips. Decided to go just a day before departure, it was in fact made possible due to HRTC Advance Online Booking website. The website not only allows booking 6hrs before the departure, but it also allows one to choose the seats [...]

In a temple above the town.

(Finally found the courage to write this down. Below is the travelogue of my stay in Naggar, a little town near Manali in Himachal, with a family which was running a local NGO – Ananda Society.)
It was the most difficult journey I have underwent so far, including the 10 hrs long treacherous trek to Hemkund [...]

A History of Fascination

“When we look at a landscape, we do not see what is there, but largely what we think is there… We read landscapes, in other words, we interpret their forms in the light of our own experience and memory, and that of our share cultural memory.”
Robert Macfarlane, the author of my latest love, “Mountains of [...]