Author: Priyanka
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7 Temples of Somnath To Experience on your Saurashtra Visit
Somnath is famous for its Jyotirlinga temple. Experiencing this Shiva temple is important for all pilgrims. But there are also many other lesser known temples to visit like the old Somnath mandir, Bhalka Teerth, Chandrabhaga Maata shaktipeeth and ancient Jain temples of Prabhas Patan.
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Surat Ponk Vadas [Video] | Garvi Gujarat
Spending a few days at grandmother’s place in Surat. Mom took me to a ponk shop she had bought from earlier. It was at ghod dod road (map location). And we enjoyed a plate of Jain Ponk vadas.
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Kala Bhairava Ashtami, Isha Crematorium, Coimbatore
I visited Kashi way back in 2010. That visit was inspired because I had been listening to this Kala Bhairava Ashtakam bhajan on loop. And slowly I wanted to see this Kashi Kala Bhairava whom the bhajan praises deeply. One of the major festivals associated with this Kala Bhairava is the Ashtami that comes once…
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Mahalaya Amavasya @ Devi Temple | Isha Yoga Center, Coimbatore
One Amavasya night, at the Isha Yoga Center, I found out there was a special event taking place. This was the “Mahalaya” Amavasya of which I had never heard before. In general, on all full moon and new moon nights, they have some lovely celebrations. But this one was something different and interesting.
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Coimbatore Diaries: where “culture” still seeps through the city life
Rangolis are put outside apartment buildings, bungalows and even individual house doors. Daily, after bath by the woman of the house. Or sometimes delegated to the house help, who is also South Indian, and sees value in it. Many will sprinkle the cow-dung mixed yellow (turmeric?) water on the Earth before doing the rangoli.
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Travel Year In Review: My Move To Coimbatore & 1000kms of Cycling Thailand
It’s that time of the year when I write my year end reviews as per the Indian new year that will happen on 29th October this year. I love this activity as it lets me spend these Diwali holidays in a very reflective way where I look back and see how the year panned out.…
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Here’s Why I Have Been Keen To Move Out Of Mumbai (& Now I Have)
I have been keen to setup a different home base from Mumbai for quite some time. There are actually a lot of reasons for this. But since people have been asking me, I would boil it down to 3 major points. If I got down to writing a full blown post I guess it would…
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A Beautiful Devi Shrine Amidst Chaos, Coimbatore
As my friend and fellow travel blogger Shrinidhi Hande once said, not all blog posts need to be long. 😀 Taking this cue, here is a little piece on a beautiful Devi aka Amman shrine situated in the middle of a tri-junction of very chaotic roads near the Town Hall area of Coimbatore. By the…
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Attack of the Fruit Flies | Thailand Cycling
It was about 4 pm, the day of riding was up, I would now look for a place to stay. That morning I had started out from a resort in the small town of Phan Thong, cycled about 80-100 kms and reached Lake Nong Kham a few kms from the fabled town of Si Racha…
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Where are you from? Me, Mumbaikar?
“Where are you from?” Typically in any social interaction, there is a query about where I am from. The other person wants to build my story in their mind, they want to place me, better understand my cultural context and so on. Fair enough. Where am I from? For those of us who have travelled…