Pressing my cheeks on the tip of the window ledge, I fix my gaze on the scene unfolding beyond. I take a deep breath in, as the mighty Himalayan Dhauladhar range fills the splayed cup of my snooping eyes. The fresh air, crisply swirling from the infinite horizon fills my lungs and refreshes my senses. The city is far behind me. And so is the metropolitan noise, the…
Read moreThe grimy filthiness beneath my feet bothered me. Instinctively, my toes curled up in crankiness even as I sneaked my way through the sacred shores of one of the most prominent pilgrimage centres in India of the Hindus. I heaved a sigh of huge relief when I was instructed to ‘just sprinkle a few drops onto yourself’ (and not bathe!) as the gushing waters of th…
Read moreI have been meaning to tell this to you for a long time now … And though, it’s taken me over an entire year – excuse this sluggish dud, but I needed this interval to reveal my true feelings for you – I thought, with a new prompt on IndiBlogger in association with your guardian Tourism Victoria , this was the perfect time to get my act together and finally let the …
Read moreAtithi Devo Bhavah [Atithi Devo Bhavaḥ] (Sanskrit: अतिथि देवो à¤à¤µः; English: 'The guest is God' or 'Guest become God') ~ Taittiriya Upanishad, Shikshavalli I.20 ‘Atithi Devo Bhava’ my granddad would say - often. ‘Guest is God’. He saw to it that every visiting guest – impromptu or planned – was personally looked after and taken g…
Read moreI heard about Carconnect.in , a site for passionate car lovers, through IndiBlogger recently where we were asked to share our road trips in order to experience the site. As I was thinking of a road trip that I could share, I never quite realized when my thoughts sparked off into a montage loop spinning a yard of memories of all those moments that I'd spent w…
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