When you travel light, you spend less time packing. I usually do the packing the previous night for an early morning departure. This time I managed to procrastinate even further. Did the packing at morning 0545 hrs for a 0630 hrs departure. Thanks to this, realized that we had started a 2000 km car journey, … Read more

I seldom travel by autos, preferring the cycle – and when out of town, public transport. The other day I landed up at Delhi airport and awaited my usual bus to Darya Ganj, for my second hand book shopping. When it did not turn up for half an hour, I checked out the autos – … Read more

Bhushan, Pinki and yours truly started at 0645 hours from Sancheti hospital. Anil had misplaced the keys of one of the new standby battery packs that we had borrowed from the Felidae team. Thanks to this loss, he discovered that he can fit the pack even without a key. We caught up with Giri at … Read more

The North East has always been an exotic place for those of us on the mainland. Hills, Militants, Tea gardens, and what have you. The flight from Calcutta to Dibrugarh overflew the Brahmaputra – and what a grand sight it was. Stretching across for tens of kilometers at places, serenaded by the peaks of Arunachal … Read more

Trust Pravin to give you some interesting assignments. So here I am on a Tuesday morning, with an interesting young couple who will be cycling down to Vetale with me. My Trek was giving some gear trouble, so I had to take my electric cycle. On the phone I checked with Aire if he was … Read more