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Taj Mahal as seen from Agra Fort The Taj Mahal needs no introduction nor am I going to give one. I took this picture when I just had a Nikon point and shoot camera. I feel that with a better lens, the Taj Mahal views are magnificent from the Agra Fort and I should give…

Fall Colors by Naini Lake, Nainital, Uttrakhand Don’t go by the serenity that you can see in this picture. Nainital is a crowded destination in the season. The main attraction of the place is the beautiful Naini Lake and the wonderful cold weather. But I am not too fond of places that get mass tourism….

Image from the original article at Gonomad.com When I saw the title ‘Timbaktu: The Blue Man of Sahara‘ by James Michael Dorsey I must say I was intrigued. I mean how many times did it reasonably occur to you that you can actually go to Timbaktu! The places people manage to visit! I thought I…

Fall sick for one week and you end up working so hard for the next two weeks. One week is over but I can see I am going to be extremely busy the next week too. So very little time for new blog posts. And 2008 has been a lean year travel wise and it…

Last week, one evening while playing TT I was telling my colleagues that maybe I need to get my eyesight checked as I am having a headache. I even lost a doubles game that day! I get a peculiar headache when I get fever too and it dawned on me while driving home that I…

103.6 down to 102.9 so no real blogging for a while. This is the nth time I got fever this year but this one is the worst by far. Update (17/09/2008)- Thanks a lot for your wishes, my temperature is now a little lower than Radio Mirchi! Maybe I will write a new post tomorrow.

Non Stop Goli: White washed Rainbows Dr. Suchitra Roy writes a very moving guest post White Washed Rainbows about a patient she met as a part of her studies. If you have to read only one post today make sure it is this. As my mind was doing this the boy was running his hand…

Not this one but one like it with a bigger ditch, roads in the National Capital Region, Delhi It was after seven and I was driving home from work today, after a game of Table Tennis in the evening. I don’t know how I did it, I went towards the side of the road where…

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKS6RXD8gBw&hl=en&fs=1] I rather like the HDFC Tulika Sharma ad. For many reasons. The biggest reason being that the father is quite OK in taking money from his daughter. Looks like a single child family set-up too, with the added advantage that the only child is a girl. You can very clearly see what kind of…

Villarica, a snow-capped volcano in Chile’s Lake District (photo by Patty McCrary, taken from Gonomad Website) No, no, I am not heading there but I loved a wonderful article about cycling in Chile by Dale Fehringer on Gonomad. The pictures! One day … In the afternoon, we cycled along beautiful Lake Villarrica, and our guides…