All Things Considered

About 5-6 kms from the Khuri village, the sun goes down without much ado behind the warm dunes in this stark expanse, making way for the first crescent of the moon. The dark sky is still a mix of grey and blue, and there is enough light to still see those handful of tiny birds […]

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The hot brown sand stretches as far as one’s eyes can go, dotted only by a few desert cacti and thorny shrubs. The dunes further away shine in the heat-haze. In this forsaken land, only an occasional well or a tiny mud hut distinguishes one piece of land from the other. There is nothing to […]

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Standing here at steep steps and gazing through through the blaze, one sees how prosaic death is. Seen from the riverfront, here the city of Benaras raises and looms tall behind the smoulder and crackle of the firewood. This is Manikarnika, where death is considered auspicious. The place where the funeral pyres burn day and […]

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 The captivating colors of marigolds , the uplifting smell of flowers wafting from the flower market, the holy graffiti on walls & vermilion painted temples, the clanging bells, the waves of crowds hailing grace to the Gods in religious fervor at the ghats, the serpentine queue outside the Vishwanatha temple, the suffocating smoke that emanates […]

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Back from a super-bumming trip around Rajasthan and areas thereabouts for a month and a half. Boy, what a land of colors! Since the next trip Northward isn’t going to be up for another few weeks, quite a bit of armchair travel is bound to happen on this blog. Watch :)
A public apology is also in […]

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