‘Gorge’ous Gandikota

It was worth it. The calls back and forth for the last few weeks, making arrangements, the delayed flight where I never got coffee, the unimaginably bumpy, five-hour-long ride cab ride, waking up at 6 am…all of it was worth it for this view. No, this is not the Grand Canyon. This is Gandikota, a […]

Yours Royally, Udaipur

I gratefully sipped my hot tea, sitting on the roof terrace of the hotel, watching the fog lift and reveal a lake so still, it looked like a mirror. Not a bad way to start the day or the year. Certainly a fitting welcome in Rajasthan’s ‘city of lakes’, Udaipur. I have a fascination with […]

Tibet Trails

For a moment, I thought I was hallucinating. Or maybe I managed to teleport somehow? How else could I make sense of the fact that on our way to Coorg we were…in Tibet? We had left Bengaluru about 4 hours ago, headed to Coorg for a weekend in the misty hills. An hour away from […]

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What’s in a Name?

I can’t let go. For as long as I can remember, I have had deep attachments to people, things, places, memories and even some meals. I’m thirty now but my closest friends are a small group of great girls who came into my life between the 4th and 12th grades. I still have the Walkman […]

Blood Moon

A sharp knock on the door startled us in our beds. The first instinct was fear, being two young women in the politically charged and often unstable region of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir in India. I asked who it was, sounding braver than I felt. To our relief, we heard the familiar voice of […]