This morning I ate my breakfast mindfully. That is to say that I ate my breakfast as opposed to shoving food in my mouth while my mind raced ahead towards the day, one hand on the cellphone checking for messages ...Read More
Some people measure a day in Almora by whether the lofty Himalaya will peak through her veil of high altitude powder puff and the resultant powdery dust laden air. "See the Mountains today?" is the opening line of my neighbour ...Read More
The muffled thrum of the boat is the only sound in the mist coated forests of one of the world's largest estuarine deltas. The mangrove forest of the Sunderbans forest breathes in an out in drips. Trees emerge eerily in ...Read More
The Gods would have taken one giant stride to reach Dunagiri from Almora, I took the road less travelled. A road that unravelled through fields governed by the Kumaon Mothers of the Earth, all of whom are busily engaged in ...Read More
Good Sadhu Babas should never be as you expect them to be and Rocket Baba is no exception. Though over 70, he has the body of a fit 30-year-old, his skin and eyes are clear and his voice just booms. ...Read More
I have always been a fan of slow travel and fast talking. In the beginning years of being on the road, it was cheaper anyway to settle down in one place and get to know it rather than hurtle from ...Read More
The chaotic streets of Cambodia’s capital give a sense of the turbulent history of this land of contradictions and surprises.
As our car nudges its way inch-by-inch through the melee, where motorbikes and luxury cars jostle with heavily laden bullock carts ...Read More
All civilisations rise and fall but at Angkor, the remains of the great days of the ancient Khmer civilisation slumbered deep in the heart of the jungles of North Western Cambodia like a sleeping beauty waiting to be discovered for ...Read More
Having been cocooned in two great resorts managed by Habitat Hotels in the Corbett Park recently, I was less than prepared for What Happened Next.Two days at the dreamily remote from the world Riverine Woods ended abruptly with an early morning ...Read More
Chacha ji is my balcony buddy in Vashisht, in the North Western Himalayas during the summer season. A balcony buddy is someone to sit and watch the human traffic pass beneath and around us with, someone to make ...Read More
I reckon there are probably not too many people who travel these days without the benefit of a guidebook but for those of you who do, you may be interested to note that it is not permitted to walk across ...Read More
“Hello, it’s Diana this side."
This side of WHAT you may ask? “This side of the phone!"
When my office boy decided to drive me insane with his efficient inefficiency, one of his tactics was to wait until I had finished giving ...Read More
