How Reaching Out Tea House in Hoi An taught me some forgotten but valuable life lessons
An oasis of tranquillity – that’s how many describe Reaching Out Tea House. They’re not wrong. Unexpectedly, it also turned out to be a trove of lessons about travel and life, something I’m grateful for beyond the traditional Vietnamese hospitality, the fair-trade teas and coffees and the delectable cookies.
My love for travel, trinkets and tales unite in metal, with Lune’s Fuckers
I have a few loves in my life, beyond family and friends. Animals. Meaningful travel. Trinkets, old coins and stamps. Stories and tales rooted in fact, embellished with fiction. These loves, I romance. I spend my time with each of them, making them my own, giving them parts of me. It is intimacy cultivated, beyond […]
A Moon and a Mountain – Climbing Mount Batur
It means ‘moon’. Bulan said to me when I asked her for her name, her eyes fixed on the dirt trail before us. In the thick darkness of the night, I could see barely the signs of a forest covering – an indication of the flora to come. A few feet ahead of me now, […]
Tiny Thoughts in a Tiny Tenpy Home
Having no regrets is all that she really wants. One Direction A lyric from one of my go-to boybands isn’t exactly how I thought I’d start this post about my Tenpy experience. For months, I penned drafts and discarded them, thinking some literary semi-masterpiece will be conjured up if I tried hard enough. The more […]
When the tigers of Ranthambore don’t come out to play
It was on a chilly December morning that I woke up in my room in Ranthambore, to the sound of bells clanging. Annoying as it was, I was no stranger to this sound, for I’d woken up to it almost every day. My alarm rang softly at first and then picked up the volume till […]
How postage stamps can take us around the world
Long before our passports were peppered with official stamps from different countries, signifying our arrival and departure from each and thereby serving as proof for ourselves and for others that we ventured to a place that isn’t our home base, another breed of stamps ruled the roost – postage stamps.
My Unforgettable Misadventures in Mainland Greece
Did you ever go on a trip to Italy or something and you land at the airport, and then, like, you meet these two guys and they’re like, “Hey, come on this yacht with us!” And you wind up going on a yacht trip and, like, Capri? And it’s like this whole other part of […]
Why it’s alright to not want to travel
Travel is a great blessing, or a privilege (for those who stay wary of the former term); this is a personal feeling, something close to my heart and being, and something that I share with millions across the globe.
Souvenirs of Susegād – A photo journey through Goa
sossegado (Portuguese) /sose’ɡadʊ/ adjective सुसेगाद (susegād) noun
What Makes Travel Such A Remarkable Teacher?
If I were asked a decade ago why I travel, my answer would’ve been something along the lines of “I need a break!”“I’m bored, I need change.”“I just want to have some fun!”
How a blissful Weekend In Idukki changed something in me
Before I begin recounting my weekend in Idukki, I must say that I know, it’s a total cliche to read something along the lines of – ‘Oh, I travelled to this place recently, and it changed me!’ I’ve rolled my eyes so often at such statements that I’m sure I can pull off one of […]
Polaroids from a Beige New York
A place is a sum of many parts, one of them being what we make of it. So, while New York is usually seen as bright, busy, loud, indifferent, bustling, energetic, aspirational, and even indescribable, my feelings were far from Frank Sinatra’s emotions in ‘New York, New York’. Perhaps, not everything is meant to be […]
