The advent of spring was greeted with great excitement as it gives one of the two breaks – the other being summer – for a long-overdue trip somewhere. Planning started in right earnest for the whole of 11 days in hand which falls towards the end of March. Wanted to do a real long drive [...]
Remember watching a movie in the early 80s ‘The Mighty Himalayan Man’, a fantasy flick about Yeti in the lines of King Kong. This Hong Kong movie greatly impressed my young mind and helped to create an atmosphere of awe about this magnificent, snow-clad mountain range. A summer rain is always welcome in the oppressive [...]
Ever heard of ‘Godliness meter’? They have placed one such thing at the border where the train from Kerala crosses into Tamilnadu. Many Keralites have left for greener pastures over the last century; if the exodus was to the Far East in the beginning, it changed course to the West – especially the US of [...]