FEATURED JOURNEY
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Varanasi: A Travelogue
Read the travelogue →: Varanasi: A TravelogueVaranasi being in the news again, I went down memory lane and refreshed my visit to this eternal city in January 2013. This is more in the form of a travelogue and will be in varying tenses. “I’m travelling to Varanasi by the Ganga Kaveri express. Dry and deserted rural Maharashtra – Men in Dhotis…
JOURNEYS ARCHIVE
Different places. A common curiosity.
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Revisiting Godavari
Read more: Revisiting GodavariThe other day I went to kovvur. It was an opportunity to see the river Godavari again. I contemplated about the river on the same lines that Huck Finn does in the novel “The adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Huck sees the Mississippi as awesome, grand and still. Perhaps there is a language that unites the…
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A trip to Nal Sarovar- Bird sanctuary -with my students (Written some 30 years ago)
Read more: A trip to Nal Sarovar- Bird sanctuary -with my students (Written some 30 years ago)A 29 km ride on the road leads to Nal Sarovar. A quiet, majestic lake around 20 kms in diameter, 140 kms from Anand. After taking a diversion from the main road we enter a narrow , arterial road tucked on both the sides with small hamlets. There the life of the city doesn’t trouble…