From the Editor – Getting the Most Out of Your Trip
Hello Again Dear Ghumakkars! We have had a nice mix of stories from senior Ghumakkars as well as some new authors this month. Let…
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From the Editor – See What a Comma Does to a Species!
Dear Ghumakkars, We are growing and we are growing fast. Proof? Well, here is the list of our brilliant new authors this month: Nikhil…
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From the Editor – Rare and Elusive and Right Under Our Noses
Hello All, Before everything else, I would like to welcome our brilliant newbies. In case you have missed their debuts, please take a moment…
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From the Editor – The Litterbug Revolution
Continuing the tradition from the the last month, let me first introduce you to this month’s brilliant debutant Sunil Deepak. In his own words…
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From the Editor – Defining Ghumakkars?
Hello again Fellow Ghumakkars, We have seen quite a few new authors at Ghumakkar in the last one month and a half. We hope…
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From the Editor – The Fountain of Youth
To begin with I would like to congratulate the fellow ghumakkars who have already published their stories in the new year and also those…
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Travelling with the “Shooting Star”
The events that preceded her journey to Spiti gives any solo woman traveler a sense of deja vu where families restrict and discourage solo travel owing to the many infamous incidents known to them.
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Travel Book Launch – Three men ride South
Travelling with the Amigos is always fun and worth writing about, but the fun and unplanned element of the first part of the ride really added to the fun. I met a lot of interesting people and saw a lot of interesting things – and that makes the story fun to tell.
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Ghumakkar Interview – With Vibha Malhotra
Today is a day to be marked, in bold, for I have just got lucky! An opportunity to interview the cause for my existence…
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Ghumakkar Interview – With Ketan Joshi
Apart from travelogues, I hope to get cracking on the next fiction novel as well pretty soon. I have a plot floating around somewhere in my skull and hope to pin it down by brute force sometime soon. And its Ladakh season again! We are planning to ride again to Ladakh and cover places we didn’t see the last time – Pangi valley, Sach pass, Umba La, Panamik and Turtuk, Agham Shyok road, etc etc.
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Ghumakkar Interview – with Mauktik Kulkarni
A person with many virtues is hard to find. A person with two Masters Degree from distinguished American Universities, a great paying job in…
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Ghumakkar Digest – October and November
True, my friend XYZ’s Uncle’s Cousin was put on lifelong medication after he got a medical checkup done, but it wasn’t the medical checkup that gave him hypertension. He was perhaps living with this risky disease for several years before it was diagnosed and God know what could have happened had the person not gone for a medical checkup. But ignoring a doctor’s advise is as common to us as ignoring that scary label on a cigarette packet or the common sense that too much alcohol is bad for our health.
So we go on living in a denial of the fact that at any points in our adult life, our body isn’t getting any younger. And that we need to take care of it. If we have missed the bus to preventive care, we absolutely need to take curative measures, to make sure that we are able to live a life we want to and travel to all those exotic places on our must-visit lists.
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