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“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”
– Anthony Bourdain
The memories of what I took from my travels. Here.
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The Magnificence and the Tragedy of the Rhino's horn
Last year, a rhino was killed every 15 hours. Let’s zoom out and find out what that actually means. At the start of the 20th century,...
Feb 7
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Born to be Wild and Free
“ The Earth does not belong to us; we belong to the Earth.” – Marlee Matlin A couple of months back I made a much looked forward to...
Jan 10
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High Drama at the Waterfront
There are times when you watch a scene unfold in front of you, right from the start to the very end. Like when you know that the cheetah...
Oct 4, 2024
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The Eternal lure of a Sunrise...and a Sunset
An ode to the timeless magic that a sunrise and a sunset create
Sep 20, 2024
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Bharatpur's magical sunsets
It doesn’t happen suddenly. It also doesn’t happen at the same time. You first notice it in the waters. One moment they are contemplative...
Mar 8, 2024
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Learning to See
Creativity is work ethic. This sentiment was the main theme in one of David duChemin’s blog posts and one that made me sit up and think....
Feb 23, 2024
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Trippin' on LSD - Light, Shadow and Dust
There was a quote I had read that stayed with me. ‘ The eye is always caught by light, but the shadows have more to say ‘ ( I just...
Jan 26, 2024
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Pushkar...camels, companions, conversations and... a camera
Pushkar. I can’t remember exactly how Pushkar got imprinted on my mind. Of course, it was a usual quiz question in early years about...
Dec 29, 2023
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"But...we got the caracal !"
Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle...
Oct 20, 2023
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A lil' bit of Puffin love
I admit, I felt a sense of both, deep satisfaction and relief that night as I went over my images. It had been a long, long day and one...
Jun 30, 2023
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Normal is boring
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson When I was writing my goals for my last...
Jun 16, 2023
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On the Importance of Rules
"Life is short, break the rules." ~ Mark Twain I was mildly confused. I was standing at the Mandovi beach, on the last leg of my trip and...
Mar 10, 2023
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Masai Mara’s gentle tug at your heart
“Mara ? Again ? ” How does one explain ? Of course, no two visits to the wild anywhere in the world can be the same. Conditions will be...
Jun 30, 2022
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The Tale in between
Its an oft repeated cliché that every moment in the wild is a fight for survival. A see saw battle between the hunter and the hunted and...
Jun 17, 2022
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