It started off as the famed beach trek. The 'beach trek' is a couple of days’ hike along the beaches and hills that line part of the western coast of India. You start off from Gokarna (or sometimes further north) and go on south to Kumta (about 25kms down) or Honavar, or further south. Essentially, you climb up a hill or two, stop and admire the ( Read more... )

I’ve wanted to go to Shillong for a very long time now. Well I wanted to go when we’d done the family holiday in Assam, and places like Shillong were not as crowded as they are now, and (since that was in May), would have been awesomely cloudy and damp and all:o but that didn't happen. so, when work came up there, I jumped ( Read more... )

I spent a day in Kolkata last month. Not long enough to have any real fun but just about long enough to eat egg rolls at a street corner, desserts at Flury’s, work(!), and squeeze in a joyride on a tram ( Read more... )

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while now - pics from a monsoon trek to Tadiyandamol in Coorg way back in August, but then I seem to have spent most of the last few weeks hopping all over the western part of the country, and not on holiday. This resulted in solemn resolutions on holidays, and peace and calm and the like, but that’s about all ( Read more... )

Last weekend before the world got a little crazier, as it often does, at far too regular intervals, there was weekend in Auroville and Pondicherry. As usual there was food, surprisingly unphotographed (may I never commit such a slight again) and pretty sights. And I ran my first ever half marathon on a lovely trail inside Auroville (also ( Read more... )

I wanted to usher in the new year amidst a natural feature of any sort - mountain, sea or river. I got me a hilly forest with a river not too far, with a few friends and friends of friends ( Read more... )

Looks like the Saklespur track is finally going to have a train running on it. I’m not sure what that implies for track trek. I suppose people could still do it but I wonder if the Railways will be fine with that once the track is in use.

I’m glad I did the trek last year. It was the funnest ever, especially since I remember doing the same route ( Read more... )

Yesterday, we set out to climb this mountain. It's called Brahmagiri and it's in South Coorg, near the Kerala border. Those lines are apparently the border markings.


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Or the impact or whatever you call it of globalisation on the neighbourhood market or pinkoliphaunt rambles on about days gone by because nothing interesting happens in her life currently

Somewhere in the middle of Delhi, tucked snugly between very comfortably wide tree-lined roads named after sundry Mughal and Rajput rulers and other Indian and non-Indian ( Read more... )

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