Category: India
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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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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…
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8 Spiritual Getaways & Ashrams Near Bangalore
When you are looking for a spiritual break from the mega city Bengaluru 🙂
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The GSB Kashi Math of Banganga, Mumbai
The moon was in its 5th waxing phase, in the Indian month of Shravan. The date as per the gregorian calendar was 1st August, 1775. The 7th head of the Kashi Math of the Goud Saraswat Brahmin or GSB community – Shrimath Madhavendra Tirth- sat in meditation and asked his sangha to create a samadhi…
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Vegetarians and the Indian Vegetarian
In Thailand, too often I found myself explaining to people that I was an Indian vegetarian, meaning that I was highly particular and strict about my food. People would nod their head and the Thai locals were quite possibly co-relating this with the Muslims who are strict about Halal. Though they also know that many…
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A Full Moon Night With the Adiyogi [& Pondering on Bharat’s Lunar Culture]
I had earlier written a post about ways to make your Adiyogi visit really memorable. I love that place. So, you can imagine how excited I would be to spend the entire night out at the Adiyogi! Last year, I was staying at the adjoining Isha Yoga Center during a full moon night, the Sharad…
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Q: As a Solo Cycle Tourer, How Do I Fit In With People Back Home in India?
Happy are those travel moments when one finds kindred spirits or in this case sant sangathi i.e. the company of fellow spiritual devotees. These are not very often because people are of all different kinds and finding a true sync is tough especially for me.
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Taking Your Cycle in the Indian Railway Train [Podcast]
Ideally, I would want to service my cycle properly in a nearby cycle shop or by myself at home and then start off on trips from my doorstep itself. But that will hardly ever happen, especially cause cycling in India is a bit more challenging than I would like. Much easier to fly of to…
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If Only India Were a Bit Safer: Cycling Bharat
I am planning my next full-fledged cycle tour to South East Asia, and I am trying to convince the visa authorities to let me in their country without a return ticket (because I want to cycle 3 countries for 3-4 months, how do I figure out where/when to take a return ticket?!). And I am…