Bouldering @ Ramanagaram
Ramanagaram is a sizeable village about 50 km south-west of Bangalore on the way to Mysore. It could have been like any of the…
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Amchi Mumbai.
Mumbai is a place many of us have visited. I personally have been there dozens of times, but the city never fails to excite…
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The Historic Town of Srirangapatna
10-Jan-08 Every place has its history but the beauty of Srirangapatna, 16 km from Mysore, is that modern development has not robbed the town…
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Exploring Mussoorie Inside out
Since my granddaughter had winter vacations, and my son had also got the week off, we decided to drive up to Mussoorie for the…
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Chikmagalur – A Green Paradise
Due to increase in civilization and tourism activities, many land owners who used to focus just on agriculture is now moving towards home-stay culture which appears to be less difficult but good financial returns.
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Trip to Pachmarhi (and others) – Part 1
We were scouting what to do for the short period of holiday that is available between Chirstmas and New Year, and after speaking to…
Read MoreJaipur to Gangotri – Solo on Bike
The cool wind in my face, the crispness of the fresh air in my lungs, high up in the mountains, the sound of river…
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Kalaa Paani – The Cellular Jail
Kalapani, Cellular Jail are names which inspire visions of the freedom struggle and the tortures faced by the Indian freedom fighters immortalized by the 1958 and the 1996 movies of the same name. No visit to the Islands of the Andaman and Nicobar are complete without a visit to the jail and the accompanying sound and light show. History tells us that the construction of the jail was started in 1896 and completed in 1906 with seven wings shaped like spokes of a wheel radiating from a central column.
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Sharavati Beckons
This has been a long pending stuff from my side. Never got around to write about it. This is about a weekend trip to…
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Fistful of Golden Corn, Gorur
Dec 13, 2008 I will remember my short visit to the village of Gorur for a single moment. Call it inspiration, beauty, unfettered joy…
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Sai Baba’s Brindavan, Whitefield
Dec 6, 2008 Brindavan is Sri Sathya Baba’s ashram in Whitefield. I had heard much of this place from various sources. There is a…
Read MoreKalimpong in 50s- Life was Like that
Written bt Col (Retd) Mani K Gahatraj  History is lived forward, We know the end before we consider the beginning, But we can…
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