Tag: Goa
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A Lunch Break -On a Road Trip
Have a long weekend, then the place to go is Goa, people enter the state from the skies, through the trains, on the roads, my grouse with road trippers is whiny long blog for another day the way they piddle anywhere and everywhere, drink beer and dump the bottles where they drain the last drop…
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Sunset at Dona Paula
Dona Paula, The iconic destination at Goa. I prefer going there in the morning when there is no influx of tourists, touts or tiresome stall owners. But my daughter had her college friends over from outside state and of course Dona Paula for the tourist is in the evening. The romantic folklore goes on from…
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The 11085 down.
My first trip to Bombay was when I was all of eight years old. it was going to wonderland. Despite the stink which had not reached the current day pinnacle as yet. The stories of Indo-Pak war, the siren ringing and taking shelters from a potential bomb was all romantically adventurous, but the most…
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A Sacred Grove –Nagvemcha Raya
Growing up in western coastal towns, Nagabana, the placement of Garadi all made me realize that the ethnic religious cult was very close to nature and revered nature. Unfortunately it is being devoured by the more powerful brahmanical cult. Interestingly Kalidasa’s Vikramuurvashiiya talks of Nakshatravana or the green patch. The legend of Urvashi also has…
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are you from goa proper?
BNLF at Mumbai, “Hi, I am Bloghead from timbuctoo, I blog as bloghead.in” Wonderful… I mumble and flash an insipid polite apology for a smile. The next question now pops up, “And you are” “Parwati Singari” I mutter desperately trying to find someone I know, or maybe I can pretend the next train to galaxy…
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