traveling is normally about going somewhere to another place, another cluster of people but also to learn of another way to understand another person to imbibe another saying today in the isolated worlds of social media i no longer know even my neighbours who share the hallway with me can’t i ‘travel’ within my own city, … Continue reading how does one travel everyday?
an angry rivulet rushes down the calm valley announcing its presence at every curve and every bend with a loud gush colliding with another river at dev prayag, to become the mighty, revered and feared river of india continues coursing through settlements and cities almost dismissive of their large presence and almost dawdling like a large pregnant woman at varanasi but still seething below then … Continue reading meeting the lifeline of india…
i take this camera along with me. with a huge lens. and i keep clicking. every trip means atleast 300 pictures a day. min! so i have a computer loaded with pictures and find it tough at times to go through and find my favourites… but then i chance upon a face. that chai shop guy. the little boy who sold me a necklace. the … Continue reading one of my dreams…
whenever i visit goa i don’t forget to have the pao. of course, growing up in maharashtra and still living here, i have a lot of pao around me. but the goan pao… is goan. as the pao is goan. is it not?
memories of a place, of a time visited, somehow stand alone. photos dont represent that very memory for me… the memory has more emotion… and the photo becomes but hot button to make me feel all of that all over again… that gush… i take so many photos. with every trip. but i never know best how to use them. in those days we would … Continue reading why a photo still doesnt replace a memory for me…
it was a long wait at kolkata airport for your ‘international’ flight into bhutan which is nestled comfortably between bengal, bangladesh and the north-east. mid-flight, the captain announced into the mike “if you all look out of your window, you will see the Mt. Everest.” thats it. thats all he said. so casually (too casually for me!). of course he must have seen the everest from … Continue reading mount everest from a plane…
i was commissioned (for a lack of any other word) to write audio tours for a company based in europe! at first i was worried. yes, of course i know my city – bombay, mumbai and all of it in between. but do i know it well enough to tell others about it? so i walked, talked, photographed and re-discovered my city!
in this series, i want to document all the little tit-bits that made me get awed, charmed, amazed, angry, delighted and interested in bombay & mumbai!
we begin at watson’s hotel!
i decided to travel into interior maharashtra, accompanying my husband (who was traveling on work), more out of curiosity than with any agenda. i have grown up in pune, but never really gone around maharashtra, except for a couple of visits to nasik, nagpur, mahableshwar and of course mumbai… he needed to go to beed, latur and parbhani, all small towns in the interiors of … Continue reading kankaleshwar temple at beed…
when i visited bath, went for a heritage walk with the locals organised by the abbey. it was a longish walk around town, with descriptions of everything… we had just been awed by the Royal Crescent (there is a similar set of buildings built in Mumbai, the Royal Crescent being the inspiration!) and then near the Circus, i was lagging behind, camera snapping away at … Continue reading the origin of ‘daylight robbery’
the deserts are just another kind of landscape. i went there first in 2008, and its something i didn’t get over! it not something i imagined. the sky is a pristine blue and the ground is lightish, arid brown. and the two don’t meet in a hazy blur as when you search for the horizon on the sea. but in one clear, distinct line, and at … Continue reading the sand dunes of rajasthan
merry to go around 