by Priyanka | May 3, 2018 | In Spirituality, India, South India, Top Reads
I don’t know about you, but I can’t visit a stunning place and spend time clicking a selfie which often doesn’t even look that good. And when it is a wowser like Adiyogi, a 112 feet Shiva face, surrounded by the beautiful Velliangiri hills and the...
by Priyanka | Apr 26, 2018 | In Spirituality, India, Jain, South India, Temples
Earlier, in April, came the auspicious day of Chaitri Poonam or the Full moon of the Chaitra month for Jains. It is the day the first disciple of Adinath, Pundrik Swami got enlightened. And along with him crores of other swamis. Adinath (or Rushabhnath) is the first...
by Priyanka | Mar 3, 2018 | In Spirituality, India, South India
Here I am in Kozhikode (pronounced Co-Li-co-Day), Kerala for a week of Kalaripayattu. As with Kalari, this is also my first experience with Kerala – I am staying at my teacher’s (respectfully called Gurakkal) homestay, getting vegetarian Malabar food...
by Priyanka | Nov 28, 2017 | In Spirituality, India, South India
Places to MEDITATE. This is my favourite activity (or rather no-activity ? 😉 ). Go somewhere awesome and sit and meditate or cycle. Kind of the same. Haha. And one podcast I heard from Swami Tyagananda of Ramakrishna Chapter in Boston, said that spiritual seekers...
by Priyanka | Apr 3, 2016 | India, South India
One of my first Lighthouse visits was the Kaup Beach Lighthouse near Udupi in Konkan Karnataka. I took a local bus from Udupi going towards Mangalore and got down at the small town. There was this Mariamma temple opposite the bus stand, From here I took an auto to...
by Priyanka | Feb 29, 2016 | India, South India, Unexpectedly Awesome
It is odd that this blog of mine hardly has anything about Mysore, considering that it was my favourite city to visit for years… so it is only fitting to write about it now in my Unexpectedly Awesome place series. In the first post I wrote about the Western...
