“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…