Some of the comments on my last post made me think hard (I guess I read constantly to avoid thinking but I am not 100% sure as of now 🙂 and motivated me to write this post. First Prashanth said: I have decided to travel atleast once a month – kinda mid-year resolution ; Now…
Author: Mridula Dwivedi
Traveling by the State Transport Buses in India
I will give you an account of what happens when you travel by a state transport bus to a hill station in the Himalayas. This is an account of our return journey Chamba to Pathankot (we actually went all the way to Bharmour). To begin with, on our return journey too we had a few…
Traffic Jam: On the Way to Office
I started fresh in the morning for work. As I put the songs of Arth (an old Hindi movie’s songs) in the music system, Jagjit Singh crooned ‘tum itna jo muskura rahe ho, kya gam kai jisko chupa rahe ho’ (very difficult to translate this one in English, so I let it go). I hummed…
Rajdhani Hotel, Bharmour, Himanchal Pradesh, India
It has been such a long time since I traveled anywhere. My last trip was to Bharatpur this January and before that to Bharmour in December 2005. Nothing seems possible before June now. Before I travel next, what I want to tell is the tale of a hotel from Bharmour. When we arrived in Bharmour…
Boarding a Metro
I was waiting at a crowded metro station for the train to come. It was hot and sultry, my shirt was sticking to my back. I was dreading the jostle that would follow the arrival of the metro. My companion was oblivious; she seemed not to have a care in the world. The crowd did…
Tagged by JB: My Very Own List
I have stayed away from tags till date. Due to some unexplored and unexplained fear, tags tend to scare me. But when I saw JB tagging her entire blogroll, I decided to play along. What attracted me is the freedom to make my own list. Here is my list of five things that have changed…
Mall in Gurgaon, Inside-Outsite or How Far a Hundered Rupee Note will Go II
Yesterday, I headed toward Sahara Mall to pick my laptop that I had given for repair ages ago. When I drive alone, I always listed to FM. It is full of Valentine’s Day stuff these days. Some poor soul from somewhere called the RJ and said he would be alone on V Day, as he…
Touts Touts Everywhere?
Get down at New Delhi railway station, they will flock you and they are an aggressive lot. As soon as a 2X2 bus reaches the private bus stand in Manali they start running and pasting small piece of papers on the windows to claim the occupants as their own. You go elsewhere in India and…
Keoladeo Bird Sanctuary, Bharatpur: An Excellent Weekend Getaway from New Delhi
Taking advantage of the long weekend because of the Republic Day holiday on Thursday in India, we visited Keoladeo National Park, the famous bird sanctuary at Bharatpur. Let me say at the outset that Seshadri and I are no bird watchers but we are ready to travel at the drop of a hat or even…
Lake Palace, Udaipur used to be his Summer Home
I was attending a one-day conference organized by my institute at The Radisson, Delhi. A speaker was talking about the HRH group of hotels (Historic Resort Hotels). It usually takes me a minute or two to pay real attention to a presentation. I was not in that frame of mind yet. Suddenly I heard the…