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Travel, Living, Photography

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 is something I love, and here are some snaps I managed from the streets of Bangalore. Tell me your thoughts.

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..

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..

It was a movie called Bombay (IMDb link) that popularized Bakel fort as a tourist destination (among Indians) back in the ’90s. The movie ..

‘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..

Honeyvale Home-stay

Walking in the rains through a lot of greenery, with slow moving mist for company – a heavenly experience indeed! Wh..

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…

Yes, you read it right – a vegetarian croc. If that’s not strange, what is? Well, it’s true. There exists such a creature, and that too, i..

It was in the mid 90s that I got my first glimpses of Hong Kong – thru the Van Damme movies that were shot there. Till last week, my opini..

Mangalore – a sleepy, coastal town in Karnataka, India is a must-see destination if you are into any or all of these:

It was a lazy Saturday afternoon, when my customary afternoon siesta was interrupted by a phone call from my friend. Struggling to shrug a..

Dec 31, 2010: Innovative Film City, Bangalore. Spent the day with the uglies, weirdos and the scary ones (no, not my family and friends, w..