Screen Shots (edit: Saturday 15, 2006) with Spectranet ISP (and I checked with my System Admn. he has not blocked blogspot sites, my institute is blog friendly) And the Same Messgae for Geocities from Spectranet ISP on Monday July 17, 2006 I am regularly updating this post adding new stuff at the end. Please scroll…
Category: India
Another BBC Mention
Remember this picture? Now go to this BBC link and pay special attention to picture number 3. After trying and trying this is my first picture featured at BBC. Why I sent this one? Because when I first put it on my blog a lot of you appreciated it and Maverick even wanted to steal…
Not My Daily Conversation
We were having dinner sitting on a flat rock near a fire on the first night of Kuari Pass trek. I wish I could say there were a million stars in the sky but almost every day by afternoon, clouds would come, cover everything and would not lift till sunrise again. Still, we were a…
Kuari Pass Trek, Uttarakhand Himalayas, India
We decided to trek through Kuari Pass, in Uttranchal Himalayas and the journey started from New Delhi. It was raining for the most of the journey and when we reached Rishikesh at 12 midnight, it was still raining. I was quite disappointed and I started bugging my husband that maybe we will not be able…
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…
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…
On Indian Roads Give me Cows Anyday!
Now, before you start hurling abuses at me for painting a clichéd picture of India, because of this cow talk, have a glass of water or a mug of chai (tea). And then decide for yourself. Yesterday was a bad day. I had to teach a class. And after that when all I wanted was…