All Things Considered

The rattling tindrum turns a sharp corner. ‘Nawalgarh! Nawalgarh!’, hollers the bus conductor from the deck above. All the buses in Rajasthan are doubler deckers. Except that on the second deck, there is no deck. People , animals , precariously hanging bags and baskets, cycles, and children form one indistinguishable pile on top of the […]

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When I ask the roly-poly guest house manager on interesting ideas to explore – a term we travel aficionados particularly like - the ghat area, I’m instantaneously inducted into the mythological mind scape of a Banarasi. ‘All ghats on the Ganges are equal. But, some ghats are more equal than the others’, he declares […]

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[A Gallong Adi man smoking rice for Apong]

Picture shot at Paia, a village near Along, West Siang District, Arunachal Pradesh.
Our man here is a Gallong Adi tribal preparing the paddy grains to make Apong. Apong is a beer made out of rice. It is atleast 3-month process that includes drying, smoking, fermenting, filtering and finally […]

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DasAvathAram: Sirippadha, azhuvadha ?

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That enigma called Jeanne Moreau ! I *love* YouTube !

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