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The of fury of Chamunda mata is said to peak in the final 48 or 24 minutes of the Ashtami tith in Navratri

As you meander the streets of Kashi, don’t miss the foodie delights of Thatheri Bazaar!

“The purpose of the Smart Cities Mission is to drive economic growth and improve the quality of life of people by enabling local area development and harnessing technology, especially technology that leads to Smart outcomes.“, says the Smart City website (which btw is not very smart, a lot of main pages are not opening at…

Modhera Sun Temple – a complete tirtha kshetra of old. Current state now. And thoughts about Surya Worship.

From my very cold Australian trip, here’s a Camping podcast :)

Let’s do some Rudraksha tree spotting :) Here are few online records I could find of Rudraksha trees in India. Please tell me of other places you know of…

“Travelling” is considered irresponsible during COVID waves. But what about digital nomad-ing where we stay at specific places for a few months. And can we do that to skip regional COVID waves?

One evening in the winter of 2017, I found myself lost in an Andalucian national park. What would have helped a lot, or so I think, was a Compass on my phone. I usually have a compass app on my phone (as it helps me ensure I don’t sleep with my head to the North,…

I had written about my tryst with the Tamil festival called ‘Kartigai Deepam’ last year. This is a 10 day festival, and on the day of Kartigai Deepam, a fire is lit on top of the Arunachala hill in Tiruvannamalai and lakhs of people arrive there to circumambulate around this hill and lamp. I visited…

As I am working with a US based company this year, I find myself with a holiday on their Thanksgiving day (today). I dug up these photos of a sea of pumpkins that my friends (hi Brigette & Douglas :) ) in Canada sent me many days back in October – because they have their…

Moving to Coimbatore brought many joys, one of which was the proximity to a full fledged AVP center. AVP aka Arya Vaidya Pharmacy. I have great affinity for this medical institution. In my youth, I had many afflictions which allopathy doctors were failing to cure. They started experimenting heavy medicines on me, which not only…

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…

A friend asked me about places to visit around the Australian city of Melbourne. I spent a month and half cycling around Melbourne in Sept-Oct 2016. So, I jotted out a few suggestions of places I had visited and found interesting. Some of these are less known especially in Indian travel circuits. Here were my…

Currently, in Thailand on a cycle tour. Frequently my route is by a river. River fronts can often be very interesting. Be it Taiwan’s River bike path or the ghats of Varanasi. How about a canal then? Here’s a look at a canal walk in a random Bangkok suburb [if you like, skip the text…

Just a few days back I felt like having a hot pot. It is one of those things that happen after we travel quite a bit, we start thinking of options and alternatives that otherwise may have never occurred to us. So, I have been muddling around about how to make a hot pot at…

In India, regional languages have taken second place to English wherever people have the option. This helps us tremendously in work fields and makes our working force internationally viable. But it does put us behind in retaining culture especially in urban areas, compared to a lot of these societies like Taiwan, Japan, China and even…