I wanted to begin the new year by indulging in my passions of travel and photography and did just last month. We drove down to Karde from Mumbai for a rejuvenating beginning to the new year and spent a couple of days gorging on sea food and gorgeous sunrises and sunsets! We set out from home [...]

Legend goes that when Babar was scouting for routes to find an easy way to cross the Hindu Kush mountains over to India, a wise man suggested that he follow the tracks of the Indian Wild Ass, which in those days roamed all over North West India, Pakistan and Iran. When my [...]

There is something about wilderness which attracts us. Maybe, living in a concrete jungle with predatory humans for company, the tree filled jungles where real predators and their prey remain in harmony seems a better option. Of course, being a city dweller since birth and knowing nothing of rural life, I wonder if I will [...]

The sculpture calls out to me. Carved in stone is a story of a devout cowherd called Chandesa who worships an icon of Shiva on sand and anoints it with milk. His father angrily strikes him and Chandesa retaliates . His staff turns into an axe chopping off his father’s legs, just when Shiva [...]