Last year, a visit to Satpura National Park concluded with a solo trip exploring Bhopal. It didn’t take me long to finalize the agenda. Soon I set out to witness tribal culture at the Tribal Museum which boasts of many a stories from the forests of Madhya Pradesh. Months later, a conversation about that museum got me … [Read more…]
Travel makes you do silly things like leaving a piece of your soul behind at unknown places. Strangely, these are places which are unfamiliar but still feel like home. These places have stories to share and you feel like you have lived those tales in forms that are only imaginary. Anandpur Sahib is one such place, and the … [Read more…]
Even though I crave for everything offbeat, Mussoorie was one super touristy place that I always wanted to visit. I know something doesn’t quite fit right in my opening line, but then aren’t ironies always beautiful? I had this belief that there must be something extraordinary about the Queen of Hills, hoping that a part of its … [Read more…]
A rainy night. I am on a rickety old Punjab Roadways bus from Delhi to Chandigarh, Punjabi folk songs playing in the background. Water dripping from the AC ducts. The young man seated next to me seems to be ignorant of everything and is snoring loudly. I pretend to sleep but the volume of music is … [Read more…]
