A handful of thoughts

My love for the Himalayas is no longer a thing of surprise for anyone who knows me for a day or so and anyone who has read by blog. But what I am going to tell you today has got nothing to do with my passion for the hills or the snow covered peaks or […]

I am feeling like going to Darjeeling. A couple of months ago, I was within 10 kilometres of Darjeeling but couldn’t make it to there. You know, ours is a life bound by schedules, time tables, sanctioned leaves, boss’s fury, unfinished work and so on. But my yearly pilgrimage to Darjeeling is overdue; I can’t […]

If I were to be born a man (if ever such a misfortune befell me that is), I prefer that the incident happened in Delhi, some 400 years ago, before Aurangzeb’s time. I would be born in an elaborate haveli, in Shahjenabad. I would wake up late, tired from last night’s adventures. My day would […]

When our car started off from Lachen it was 5:30 in the morning and the wind seemed to do justice to my feather jacket as I continued to sport my ‘mattress’ look. Our destination was at an altitude of 17,100 feet, the Gurudongmar Lake, about three and half hours drive from Lachen. Our car (only […]