Category: travel
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I am wary of cliches. I love some of them, but some of them I really really dont like. And for some I have not made up my mind yet. ‘The world is small’ is one of those such things, which happens to other people. I always marvel at stories told by people around me…
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Travelling to Kashmir has been one of my childhood dreams. It came true in an unexpected fashion last week.After the quite epic and never ending #anshitanukulkishaadi in Jammu, we headed to Kashmir. The wedding and kashmir culture merits a super long post of its own. And I think the beauty of kashmir and its description…
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We had Malyalam speaking neighbors for the longest period. Brother and I practically grew up with V and V, eating generous amount of dosa and coconut chutney. V and V would always go on summer vacations to their ancestral गांव (village) in Kerala. It was always a mystery for us owing to our poor pronunciations. I…
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The moment our tavera (a chevrolet multi purpose vehicle) reached the homestay in Malvan at 3 am, all of us knew this was going to be a special road trip. A, R and I had gone crazy planning a road trip over the past 2 months. Sometimes the distance was the problem, sometimes the mode…
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* From happy, reflective cab drivers from Afghanistan/Kenya/Punjab to majnoo (reckless and fearless), flirt drivers in Mumbai, travel feels incomplete without their personal stories.* Feels like home when you return back to a rain-less day when you can get most of your laundry sorted out and taken care of. Yes, after reaching home really early,…
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‘When was the last time you did something new’ – someone posted this on my facebook timeline.Got me thinking. I traveled to Atlanta for the first time last week. While the weekdays got utilized in work meetings, sessions I did not really head out. Office to hotel, hotel to office. Except on thursday when I…
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I got a very kind and talkative Afghani uncle for my cab ride to the airport yesterday.Because he had lived in Delhi for an year and had visited Goa, Kashmir, Taj Mahal, he had a lot of travel tales to tell. I told him Afghanistan seems like a very beautiful country based on the few…
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How does one come about to write about a city romanced by so many ? After having had the SATC and woody allen influence, its hard not to look at the city through borrowed glasses.Neveretheless I tried.I journeyed in Coach USA to get down at port authority of New York and walk down the dreamy…
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2 years ago around the same time of the year I lived in Dallas for more than a month. So when we were planning a college friends reunion and things moved from the west coast to the southern state, I felt a bit reluctant to visit Texas. Again! I mean Austin, Dallas same difference right…
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Since I have decided to jot down whatever fun things (apart from ginormous amounts of work, which looks never ending) I will be doing during this trip, I feel bad that it took me such a long time to update activities from last weekend. Saturday was spent in driving around the scenic beaches of SFO.…