About Me I am an armchair and actual traveller, a bookworm, an editor, a communications consultant, a click-happy photographer, a foodie, a Classical music (Indian, Western and Arabic) lover, a mythology enthusiast, a closet graphic designer, co-founder of The Sunday Book Club (#TSBC) … I am all that, this and more !
The Mehrangarh Fort of Jodhpur is easily one of India's best maintained and among the grandest of them all. But its beginnings in 1459 are shrouded in a curse and a human sacrifice. read my post to know more
Kuldhara. A village with a fascinating story of abandonment, curse and ghosts. And an equally fascinating tale of how it was discovered in recent times.
Popular perception of Rama in art depicts him as clean shaven, young, handsome and with a serene countenance. At the Jaisalmer Fort Palace Museum, there is a sculpture of Rama which is anything but that. Read more about it in my latest post :-)
The bewitching and beautiful Sonar Killa or the Golden fort-city of Jaisalmer in Rajasthan is a place of eceptional beauty. It is also a place that is falling apart, literally, day by day due to pressure from an increase in population and tourits
The beautiful, quirky, relaxing, Bhairon Vilas Palace Hotel in Bikaner, once the residence of the former Prime Minister of Bikaner. Today it is a Heritage Hotel
A meeting with Suraj "Eskay" Sriram, political cartoonist and satirist. A meeting that left me enriched and inspired and humbled too. And a meeting that got me an autographed copy of his book :-)
The 1,500 year old stone elephant that gave an island and its world-famous rock-cut caves its name is today largely forgotten. Sad times indeed for the Elephant of Elephanta
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