Travel is therapy and it gets even better when your best buddies become your travel companions. With a shared interest in small towns having larger than life histories, we decided to head to Gwalior and Orchha to end the travel calendar of 2017. The city of Scindias welcomed us with open arms as we warmed … [Read more…]
The ruins dotting the temple town of Hampi narrate a tale of the past as well as form a parallel storyline that I lived last month. Embracing this ancient Vijayanagara kingdom, I lost my heart, beat by beat to the past, present and to the times that lie ahead. Some places are like love, hard … [Read more…]
I have a monsoon ritual that’s typical of being in love. Regardless of where I am, come monsoons and I start missing the Western Ghats with their cover of a fluorescent green carpet, virgin waterfalls springing up across their hairpin bends and clouds descending down on earth. Nostalgia will be the culprit here if I … [Read more…]
My heart is aching for the mountains. Yet again. But, since I am staying put in the city for a couple of weeks to come, I will do the next best thing that is; writing about the mountains. The answer to wanderlust sometimes is re-living memories to fool the heart that places you long for … [Read more…]
