That rainy evening when we got down with all the baggage and accompaniments of a TV crew after not so pleasant day-long journey from Delhi, I never realised that the faint contours of the somewhat crumbling architecture hid beneath its facade a legend of indefinite proportion – the Ghost in…
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Heady Masala Tea – Stimulating Winter Mornings
Warm to wrap your palms around and warm when it goes inside your stomach. Nothing can beat the joy of a cold winter morning than a hot cup of Masala Tea – a typical Indian blend of aromatic spices spiked with crushed ginger. A perfect brew to start your day.…
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Maheshwar (Madhya Pradesh) – Man’s Search For Meaning
In the course of your travels, you don’t often engage in a conversation that opens before you a new perspective of life. The facets towards which these chance encounters lead you are not exactly ‘the fall of the apple’ moment, but, as the writer discovers in Maheshwar, they make you pause and wonder and…
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Emperor Nur Jahan – In Awe Of Her Feisty Spirit
Pulling the body out of the bed, I look yearningly at the snugly sheets inviting me inside its folds. Outside, even though it was little past the hour when dawn begins to sneak its way across the horizon but the sky had already donned the character of a high noon…
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The Cloud Messenger – Reflections On Meghaduta By Kalidasa
As the drama unfolded high in the sky, the flirtations reminded me of Kalidasa’s epical poetry, Meghaduta (The Cloud Messenger). Could amongst these prancing frothy clouds be the one whom the Yaksha had requested to carry his longings to his beloved in the Himalayas enticing him with the tantalizing sights he will…
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Driving In Fog – Roads Are Scary, Lonely And Lovely
Agreed that driving all through the night in a dense fog is a reckless adventure! But, at times, you take the chance, if not for anything then to prove to yourself your mettle and, at the age when life begins to accept its limitations, discover that your heart still throbs.…
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