Back lanes of Shahjahanabad
BATTLING the 40 deg. heat of the average summer afternoon yesterday I ventured into the city of ‘Old Delhi’ or Shahjahanabad, the second last of the 7 cities to be build on the land collectively known as Delhi today. Old Delhi might not appear as the most pleasant place to visit, with urban chaos at its best, immense traffic... Read More »
The 4500 year old Dancing Girl Statue
There is her little Baluchi-style face with pouting lips and insolent look in the eye. She’s about fifteen years old I should think, not more, but she stands there with bangles all the way up her arm and nothing else on. A girl perfectly, for the moment, perfectly confident of herself and the world. There’s nothing like her, I... Read More »
The Indian Slice of Kashmir, Srinagar...
The Mughal emperor Jahangir captivated by the beauty the Kashmir Valley, once shouted out the couplet in Persian, Gar firdaus baruhe zamin ast, Hamin asto, hamin asto, hamin asto (If there is a paradise on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here) Daily life on the Dal Lake, Srinagar Looking back at the last 50 years... Read More »
Amritsar and the Golden Temple
Last month I completed a 2400Kms motorcycle ride from Delhi to the northern-most point in India in Kashmir passing through the states of Haryana and Punjab. To read more click here >> 2400 KMS ON A ROYAL ENFIELD – TO THE NORTHERN-MOST POINT OF INDIA, KASHMIR Out of all the places I passed through, Amritsar was a city that... Read More »
2400 kms on a Royal Enfield – to...
As I woke up this morning and looked outside my window, I realise I have been sleeping too long, living inside dreams too vivid, but in the end they are just dreams and I don’t want to sleep. So I tell myself to hit the road, to feel the wind in my face, to be dazzled by the shimmering... Read More »
Restoring a 1917 Kodak 2C Autographic Junior Folding Camera
THE idea to preserve moments as images goes back as far as the 6th century to the ancient Greeks but it was only in 1826 that Frenchman Joseph Niépce using a sliding wooden box camera recorded the first permanent image on a glass plate coated with a mixture of silver and chalk that darkened when exposed to light. Till... Read More »
Rakhigarhi: In Search of a Long Lost...
I left for Rakhigarhi at 7am early November 2009 in a Tata Indica car, with my driver named Sispal, I was soon was crossing the Delhi border at Bahadurgarh past the village of Kanjhawala to enter the state of Haryana. The drive to Rakhigarhi is meant to be of 150 km from Delhi along the Delhi – Rohtak road... Read More »
1300 km road trip to Munsiyari in the...
MUNSIYARI literally sits at the very end of India and all you have in front of you is this massive 7000m wall of rock and ice across which lies the Tibetan Plateau. A wall that has killed many over the years that have tried to challenge it’s might, a wall that locals respect and believe for centuries as the... Read More »
The Last 410 Asiatic Lions on the
TO live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance ~ Buddha HUMAN prosperity at the cost of animal and plant life, it seems has become something that we have started to take for granted. Everyday somebody somewhere is protesting against protecting some dying species, some NGO is fighting to save... Read More »
2400 kms on a Royal Enfield – to...
As I woke up this morning and looked outside my window, I realise I have been sleeping too long, living inside dreams too vivid, but in the end they are just dreams and I don’t want to sleep. So I tell myself to hit the road, to feel the wind in my face, to be dazzled by the shimmering... Read More »
