The mother and daughter visited our campsite at Dhunda in search of medicines. It is very common on a trek to be requested for medicines by Gujjars. I don’t know why the people living high up the mountains are called Gujjars. They have nomadic lifestyle, they build temporary shelters and move with their livestock to…
Category: India
Total Lunar Eclipse, June 15-16, 2011, Gurgaon, India
I decided to add this post to the Skywatch Friday as well. You cannot imagine how much I sweated to click even these pictures, my zoom lens needs servicing and it had to happen when one of the biggest phenomenons had to occur in the sky. Zoom lens acting funny or not I had…
Summer Anyone?
This is not our idea of summer for sure but for some even summer means snow! I clicked this picture in the first week of June at Talhauti in Uttarakhand. I am entering this for the photo of the month contest with Mahendra Homestays. Psst there theme is summer!
Skywatch Friday- Sunrise Over Uttarakhand Himalayas
This was the sunrise at our campsite called Dhunda in Uttarakhand. In the city I can hardly ever drag myself before 7.00 am out of the bed. In the mountains I was up at the crack of the dawn almost everyday waiting for the magic to happen in the skies! Please visit the Skywatch page…
Friday Flowers- Peacock Flowers
I first cropped this picture but then I decided that I will let it go as it is. All the peacock flower and butterflies and bees were clicked in October 2010 during the Commonwealth Games break!
West End Hotel, Mumbai
In January I went to Mumbai twice, maybe it is because of that I am struggling to get out in February, I exhausted my Feb quota in Jan itself. One of the visits was to chair a session of NHRD on social media. The session itself was quite enjoyable but this post it about the…
Another Tryst with the Blue Throat
It is not difficult to spot the Blue Throat near the Ganda Nala (open drainage) but it is certainly a game of patience to wait for it to come out in the open, relatively speaking. After 45 minutes of sitting patiently this is what I got. If I do not get to see the bird…