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Every inch of landscape in a three mile radius around Hollywood screams of glamour, showbiz and drama. Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck beam at us from large posters that hang alongside the winding road . Upscale apartment complexes and palatial ...Read More

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Rows and rows of palm trees stand erect like sentinels along the winding roads of Los Angeles. They perhaps shoulder the responsibility of guarding the very wealthy angles (and some devils) who deign to reside here. Rubbing shoulders with them ...Read More

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Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard I don’t believe in travelling to get away. Yes, there have been times when the ...Read More

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  Someone in the world is excited about having just swiped their credit card online. They are putting in their leave application and checking out the best deals on travel packages. Someone is preparing themselves for an adventure,  reading hotel and restaurant ...Read More

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Yet another week in Michigan and I find myself staring at an even more dismal sight than what I beheld the last time I was here. The weather app on my phone shows a tiny grey cloud showering drops of ...Read More

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  Twenty minutes have passed since baggage collection at Swarnabhoomi Airport. So far, no sign of  the Bangkok Taxi man who had promised online to take us across Bangkok over the next three days. Mom’s worry lines are deepening. Mamaji (Col ...Read More

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  The seeds of my love affair with San Francisco were sown the very day we were acquainted. What started out as a mere check mark on the to-do list of a travel aficionado, culminated into a full blown obsession which ...Read More

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They say that if you make the mistake of venturing into the Himalayas even once you are doomed. Because they keep calling you back. Neither pictures, nor words can capture the magnificence of those mesmerising bugyals and towering peaks whose beauty ...Read More

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  There are dozens of places on this planet which stake claim to the coveted appellation ‘Heaven on Earth’. We even have one in the midst of all the so called squalor in India – Kashmir.  But this is not a ...Read More

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Something intriguing and fascinating is in the air. The mere memory of a place is regenerating and revitalizing lost and even non-existent connections.  A certain band of people, well into their40s and 50s, who once knew each other as children ...Read More

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“I don’t care how big and fast computers are, they’re not as big and fast as the world.” ~ Herbert Simon When was it that the travel bug bit me? Was it when I started to read travel books? Or was it ...Read More

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Two people met, became friends (not sure when love happened) and decided to get hitched for the better. Like any other inter-caste marriage, this Assamese-Bengali alliance also went through a lot of high drama before it could culminate into ...Read More