The sheer joy of walking down the road when the drizzle drops descend, floating down often carried away by the strong winds, is still the same. Darjeeling is a place of my many firsts - my first [Read more...]
Bangkok, a city slightly more than high-rises, busy corporate life, go-go bars and active night life has been my home for the last one week. It would be unfair to the city and it's people if I don't [Read more...]
The Tibetan dance “Cham” is quite familiar with people fascinated by the ever varying Indian culture. However, very few resources in English exist on the internet. Having got the slightest hint of [Read more...]
( continued from " Meghalaya: Color-ob" ) Which places did you visit? Did you go to the seven sister falls? We trekked. Yes. We walked all the way from Shillong to [Read more...]
Purulia trip: After the Meghalaya trip full of trek and caving, my next trip was lazying around Ajodhya hills of the Purulia district of Bengal. While Meghalaya was a crazy place, the friends, I went [Read more...]
Do you know: Meghalaya has the subcontinent's longest and deepest of caves and is in World's top 10 caving destinations? Every year expert cavers across the globe visit this place to explore, research [Read more...]
What did it feel like? It felt like a cacophony of colours, colours everywhere.. the lush green fields, the darker green of the forest.. the wild red berries, the kids and their enthusiasm. The sky [Read more...]
One of the chief attractions in Murshidabad is the Hazarduari complex. I would not write about the history of the Hazarduari palace as my knowledge is particularly limited to the Wikipedia [Read more...]
Part 2: A day with Baban Das Baul. “Who was the first man on earth?", asked Baban Das Baul. After a moment of silence, I said, “Manu?”. Ramasish rubbished the idea and said, “It is Adam and [Read more...]
Part 1: Bauls: Spirituality over religion. I set myself out to Murshidabad, after the tiresome Friday in office, in search of the Bauls and the Fakirs. Before I write about my experience there, I [Read more...]