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Haridwar and the beauty of chaos

I met Naziya on the banks of the swift-flowing Ganges at Haridwar. She was a young village belle, who had […]

April 30, 2022

My Rishikesh sojourn was in June or July. Rain poured from the sky whenever it felt like and the humidity […]

April 29, 2022

Rishikesh and Haridwar…immediately my mind raced to the twin Gangetic town of Uttarakhand. The TV documentary on the growing religious […]

April 28, 2022

Spring officially brings an end to winter, and the whole planet comes alive again. The sun shines more boldly, trees […]

March 31, 2022

“A vast sheet of water, covered with lotuses in flower, amid which thousands of aquatic birds are sporting, at the […]

April 5, 2021

I first came to know of the Socotra island when I was in school. A brilliant TV commercial featuring the […]

April 12, 2020

“It is not down in any map, True places never are” – Herman Melville. This is completely applicable to Socotra […]

April 11, 2020

Horton Plains, with the highlight of the World’s End, is one of the best side trips from the tea hill […]

February 13, 2020

The dramatic precipice of the World’s End is located halfway of a 9 kilometers hiking route through the Horton Plains […]

February 12, 2020

One of my most beautiful memories of Sri Lanka is of the painted cave temple of Dambulla. I liked the […]

February 8, 2020