Oct 012021
 
Free Download October 2021 Wallpaper Calendar

Boats In A Lake: October 2021 Wallpaper Calendar   As we enter October & welcome the festive and travel season let me share the October 2021 Wallpaper Calendar, featuring 2 boats in morning mist somewhere in North East India.  Talking about North East India, one of the so-called less explored regions by tourists and travelers alike. I have myself have been only to 4 places in North East India – Sikkim, Assam, Nagaland, and Arunachal Pradesh.  So once travel resumes to the pre-covid days I do hope to travel to more places In North East India and explore the [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Apr 012021
 
Free Download April 2021 Wallpaper Calendar - A Lake in Ladakh

Every Lake in Ladakh Has Magic – Download April 2021 Wallpaper Calendar   As summer knock on the dusty plains of India, everybody looks to go to mountains to escape the heat, while for a long time the hills meant Simla, Mussoorie, Manali, Nainital in North and Ooty, Kodai and Munnar in South maybe 5 maybe 10 years ago the movie 3 idiots catapulted Ladakh into fame. And suddenly ” I got Lehed” that was a hush hush declaration of culmination of a mostly clandestine horizontal  rendevouz, suddenly became a buzzword of dizzying vertical achievements, thanks to the rarified [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Oct 142015
 
Trekking to Maheshwari Kund Munsyari Kumaon

 An Easy trek in Kumaon to Maheshwari Kund Munsyari I no longer am much of a long distance hiker anymore, but I also try not to miss short hikes like I did in Spiti to Dhankar Lake.  While Uttarakhand has many famed treks for you to go for like Valley of Flowers, Roopkund, Pindari Glacier etc., what I did was a simple climb to a sacred lake called Maheshwari Kund or Meesar Kund in the local dialect. The important thing to note here is that our ancestors knew the importance of water bodies like lakes and rivers hence they [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Apr 082014
 
The Frog and The Princess: A Fairy tale told again

The Princess who saved a frog:  A Modern day fairy tale Once upon a time there was a little girl, her mother called her “Sona” her granny called her “Guddo”, and her dad called her “Princess” Of all the names the little girl loved was “ Princess”, everything else for her was immaterial, so she always failed to react  when somebody called her with one of her other names.  “ Guddo, lower the volume of your TV, I am praying”…. Granny will scream, but Guddo would be busy being Princess, in a fairy tale of her own. “Sona,  drink [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

Aug 132013
 
Hidden Canyon Of Hyderabad

Should we keeep the Hidden Canyon of Hyderabad a secret? A few days ago while on a photographic jaunt with some of my photographic friends we stopped at an isolated spot to plan where to go next. While we were talking as to where to go next to go to the next  birding hot spot in Hyderabad like Gandipet or go and click one of the monuments like Taramati Baradari. While we were debating on the same, one of us started exploring the area and this is what he found We were all very exited on this discovery just [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]