Ajrakh then Circa: around 3000 BC Location: Mohenjo Daro city in the Indus Valley (now in present day Sindh province of Pakistan) A bearded corpulant man, walks through maze of his semi royal apartments…
Category: India
Blog posts
Reaching Ladakh by road from Kargil
Endless bleating woke me up to a bright sunny morning. I went out of my tent and saw a lovely bowl-shaped green forested basin surrounding me from all sides. The camp, where I rested…
Post cards from Kashmir to Kargil on Srinagar Leh road trip
On my first trip to Kashmir, I had the opportunity to explore Ladakh as well. Famously known as the “Land of High Passes”, Ladakh is located in the eastern part of Jammu and Kashmir…
Beauty in symmetry of Abhaneri Stepwell
“A vast sheet of water, covered with lotuses in flower, amid which thousands of aquatic birds are sporting, at the shores of which bathers washed, surrounded by jungle greenery”. That is how, in 1864,…
Puppeteers, magicians and fire eaters of Delhi
As long as I can remember, I have always objected to poverty or slum tourism and was not overly excited when a friend of mine invited me to the Art of Hope tour in…
Jaipur memories in photos
The romance of the Jaipur rain With the rain clouding up the Cologne skies leaving the air smelling mildly acrid, my mind drifts off to another place in another time. The place is the…
Slow traveling and not paragliding in Bir
If ever an anti climax can be beautiful, then Bir trip was very successful at that. Although my expectation from the place that is, paragliding in Bir did not come true, I enjoyed every…
Slow traveling and a Dharamkot trip
Slow travel is the latest “IT” word in the travel industry. People from all over the planet are raving and writing so much about the benefits of slow travel, that you often wonder if…
Writings on the walls in Bengaluru
“Imagine you saw a colour in your dream, which you have never seen before. It doesn’t consist of any colours or shades that you know. Trying to describe that colour would be as difficult…
Valley of Flowers Photo Essay
” I must have flowers, always and always”. – Claude Monet For the love of flowers Founding father of French Impressionist painting, Monet had been a master colorist and a prolific painter of light and atmosphere,…
Page 1
of 16