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  • Blogabonds in Ruskin Bond’s Doon

    Blogabonds in Ruskin Bond’s Doon

    Dr.Lokesh Ohri the anthropologist and team member of VOW2017 took us on the Ruskin Bond walk. Dr.Ohri made it so interesting and personal, with extensive knowledge and storytelling skills, what was interesting to me, was he was not performing the story he was sharing Dehradun and Ruskin Bond with us. Ruskin Bond is the icon…

  • Packing For a Road Trip

    Packing For a Road Trip

    Am back from one road trip, and realized how much of unnecessary things I was carrying,  So to work things out here is what I did, I made a checklist. A road trip is essentially a journey via automobiles, sometimes impromptu; it could involve some spiriting activity. Before come into to the checklist of must…

  • Indigenous Transport of Jamnagar

    Indigenous Transport of Jamnagar

    Jamnagar As we entered the reliance inspired town, our travel owes apart. One thing I learnt from Neomi Duguid is not apologize for making conversation with the people on the street. One interesting mode of transport I saw was the Chakda  It reminded me so much of the various mythological stories we hear about the…

  • Stories Along The Way

    I love travelling, and I am a traveller not a tourist, for a tourist sees what he has come to see, I see what I see. Travelling for me is healing, discovering and learning. There is a kind of excitement. All these years I have been travelled not only to other worlds but into my…

  • The Jhulelal Temple

    Lal meri, pat rakhiyo bhana jhulelaalan Is one of my favourite songs, and when I did ask someone they told me it was a Sufi song. Religious scholars always said Jhulelal was Krishna; their justification was Jhulelal was the son of MataDevki. My own learning from the various articles published by the Sindhology study group…

  • Sunset at Dona Paula

    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…