A podcast about Mangalore on ‘The Musafir Stories’
When Saif from ‘The Musafir Stories’ (India’s own travel podcast) reached out to me a few weeks ago to ask whether I’d be interested in co..
Must. Break. Free
“Time to wake up!”, she says.
I half open my eyes, struggling to shake off sleep that had engulfed me with great difficulty in the wee ..
Notes from office
How much Covid19 has changed our world! I never imagined that I will ever see a time when we must wear masks before stepping out of our ho..
Hornbill Festival, Nagaland and Meghalaya
Our flight touches down in Dimapur and the stewardess makes an announcement that the airline has lived up to its promise of landing on-tim..
‘Calaveras Pintadas’ and Natgeo
This is one of those little joys of life (the micro-happiness bits) that helps you keep going when nothing else is really working for you:..
Big story from a tiny village
My cousin Jayakrishnan (JK) has been working hard to set up a ‘Tinkering lab’ in a school in our village; the one where he did his early e..
Street photography
As I have probably mentioned in one of my earlier posts, it was around the time that my son was born – way back in 2003 – that I actually ..
Odhens, Dog cafe, Dosas & more
So life has been moving along, rather like a passenger train over the past few months with a fair share of fun, travel, work and of course..
Thoroughly enjoyable things to do in Mexico City
In one of my earlier posts, I had listed down some of my initial thoughts and observations about the exciting, colourful and bustling Mexi..
In other news / May 2019
So I am back from Mexico city, but the hangover from the visit still persists (no. I am not talking about the Tequila). I think it is goin..
A Lucha libre (Mexican wrestling) experience
I’d seen those masks in the airport shops when I first entered Mexico. Those colourful masks, which I assumed were fancy gift ideas for ki..
Portrait Photography
Photography is a hobby that I picked up about 15 years ago, around the time my son was born. I should thank him for that; for, it was to c..
McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala: a photo story
After our last year’s trip to Varanasi and Bodhgaya, my friend ‘Smiling Buddha’, Deepak and I were back on the road again; this time to th..
A dash of life from Mexico City
November 2018, Mangalore: I was to travel to Mexico City for work, and truth be told, I wasn’t feeling exactly comfortable about the propo..
A Winter-Olympian in the making from sunny Mangalore
It is 5.45am, and I am huffing and puffing my way to the concrete road near Thannirbhavi beach in Mangalore on a bicycle. I am to meet a s..