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My new Nikon 35 mm lens
“Ding-dong! ding-dong!”
Our loud door bell startled me out of my lazy semi-reading-semi-watching-TV-semi-dozing Saturday afternoon.
“Mus..
Nikon Photo Walk: Pilikula Heritage Village
June 22, Sunday: I wake up earlier than usual, excited at the prospect of meeting fellow photographers at the Photo Walk organized by Niko..
Sultan Bateri: Tipu’s Watch Tower
“Mangalore was an important town…Sultan Bateri, a watch tower…built by Tipu Sultan..”
What?!
This is big! I am actually sharing re..
7 reasons why I love my Royal Enfield Bullet
In India, there are bikes and then there is the Bullet. There are bikers bound to their rides by reason, and there are the ‘Bulleteers’ bo..
Of jasmine sheds and fish heads.
“Can we go to Mullapanthal?”: My foodie friend from Kozhikode (Calicut) asks me. Sitting at the Grand Hotel in Cochin – a heritage hotel k..
Go, Goa, Gone!
When my wife picked Goa as the vacation destination for this summer, a Garfield style smile popped up unknowingly on my face. This was the..
Street Photography – Bangalore
Street photography is something I love, and here are some snaps I managed from the streets of Bangalore. Tell me your thoughts.
An evening in Colaba
Colaba, Mumbai – That’s where I am today. This is my 8th visit to Mumbai in my 39 years of life, but I still haven’t got used to the hustl..
Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Spent an afternoon in Fort Cochin visiting the various stalls put up as part of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (the first Biennale being held ..
Alleppey Backwaters
For me – a Cochin-ite, Alleppey (Alappuzha) is really my backyard – I had never considered it as a place I would want to sight-see. Even w..
Amazing Bakel
It was a movie called Bombay (IMDb link) that popularized Bakel fort as a tourist destination (among Indians) back in the ’90s. The movie ..
Best fish place in Mangalore.
‘Where do you get the best sea food around here?’ – a question we Mangaloreans get a lot. After all, they’ve come to a coastal town, and f..
Oyster Opera: Great setting, good food!
Located 100 kilometers south of Mangalore, in a place called Padanna in Kerala, is this beautiful little nature themed resort called Oyst..
Chikmagalur: Into the rains
Walking in the rains through a lot of greenery, with slow moving mist for company – a heavenly experience indeed! Wh..
Indians – the worst tourists? Bah!
What?! We Indians are among the top in ‘most disliked tourists’ list? How did that happen? French or Brits being on top, I can understand…