A Full Night of Yakshagana @ Kateel
Feb 17, 2009 My mother tells me that we have been to Kateel along with my grandmother. It must been about 25 years ago….
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Twenty Centuries Back
A very early morning, jostled out of sleep, washed and bundled in warm clothes, with eyes half closed and ears awake by piercing horn…
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Scenes of Sandstone
It was still very early morning. I was waking up from an almost non existent sleep. The train moved ahead and surprisingly across too….
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In a Religious Town, Dharmasthala
14 Feb 09 When the bus arrived at Dharmasthala at 7 am this morning, it was two hours behind schedule. Not that the delay…
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A Southern Sojourn Vol-III: Rameshwaram
It is gratifying to know that one’s jottings are of some help to other netizens. So here are the notings from the next and…
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A Southern Sojourn Vol-II: Chennai-Trichy-Tanjore
We hired two 9 seaters and first went to the Kapaleeshwara temple, which is at the centre of the culture in Mylapore. Go through Karthik’s another brilliant post about Mylapore. Had the darshan of Shiva and Uma and the rest of the family, without any hassles, came out and fed those cave-mouthed fish in the gigantic Mylapore pond.
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A Southern Sojourn Vol-I: Chennai-Kanchipuram-Mamallapuram
Vol-I: Planning and Delhi-Chennai-Kanchipuram/Mahabalipuram This Christmas we went to south on a temple trip of Tamilnadu. First the planning part goes. As always it…
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Jhansi to Khajuraho – A Road Review
It was past 3 PM when we were done with our lunch at Jhansi and we gathered ourselves for the last and final leg…
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Trip to Pachmarhi (and others) – Day 2
It was the second morning in Pachmarhi. We had thought of getting up to meet the sunrise, but soon shelved that plan (or rather,…
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Kanva Reservoir – Far away from the honking crowd.
This is one of those “never-planned-for-this” exploration. Sometimes these unplanned explorations turns out to be the best ones. Kanva Reservoir is located approx. 60…
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The Saga of Somnath and Sardar Patel
The famous temple of Somnath is situated in western India located on the Arabian Sea coast of Gujarat. It is believed that between Antarctica…
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i made a friend there who is from denmark he is very much interested wild life ,trekking .we stayed in chunmun cottage it is…
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