My neighbor puts a lot of bird feed and I get to click the pictures. I wish I had the pose of the first sparrow along with the background of the second (loved that bougainvillea flowers background) but then birds are one of the worst models of the world. And yet when it comes to…
Category: India
Lazy Sunday Photo- A Black Redstart Bird
I have posted a Black Redstart before but that was just the excitement of spotting a bird for the first time. But yesterday I managed to get better pictures at the same spot where I had found the Black Redstart a few weeks earlier.
Hawa Mahal, Jaipur
I somehow like this picture a lot. Not sure if it is ideal for Skywatch but I do find the little patch visible from the Hawa Mahal at Jaipur quite intriguing. Hawa Mahal was built by the king Pratap Singh in 1799 AD. The kings family used to live in the city palace and this…
New Notice at IGI Airport New Delhi?
I think this notice is new at the Delhi Airport. Not that I go to airports quite frequently but I cannot recollect seeing this before. Maybe it is because of the forthcoming commonwealth games that they have put it? The best piece of an airport scenario (though this was at Chennai airport but I can…
Beautiful Dhauladhar Mountain Range at Triund
These days all I am doing is looking at old travel pictures and deleting the ones that have not come out well. I can still remember so much of the trek. But for a change I can also remember a lot of the last week too, I got to learn quite a lot about a…
The Great Indian Rope Trick, Yes the Very Trick, by Mr. Ishamuddin Khan
While moving along in the corridors of my college (where I teach) I saw a poster, “Come and see the Great Indian Rope Trick performed by Ishamuddin Khan.” I vaguely nodded my head and moved on. When the day of the performance arrived many of my students also mentioned it. I once again thought I…
Wish You a Travel Filled 2010
Wish You a Very Happy New Year, May We Travel More!
Wish You A Very Happy Diwali
Wish you all a very happy Diwali. May we light a lot more lamps and bust a few less crackers.
And Yet More Truck Art
Colorful Truck Art You can’t blame me for posting these, I can only post what I see most! And you have to admit this one was quite colorful. Of course this time we have ‘blow horn’ and not ‘horn please.
Haveli Braj Bhushanjee, Bundi, Rajasthan
A Painting on the Wall in our Room at Haveli Braj Bhushanjee, Bundi, Rajasthan When we got down at the Bundi railway station it was as usual without a hotel booking. I had an idea (from reading about Bundi at Indiamike) that most of the hotels in Bundi are in the Nawal Sagar area. And…