Pongalo Pongal
Pongal is my favourite dish – both chakkrai or sweet pongal and venn or kara pongal. Incidentally its the only ...
Sunday Snapshot – A morning in Angkor Wat
I am always a bit wary about taking photographs of people abroad without asking for their permission. However I was ...
At the Buddhist monastery in Udayagiri, Orissa
I was in Orissa last week and I visited the Buddhist triangle – Ratnagiri, Udayagiri and Lalitgiri which is about ...
Among the Top 25 Travel Blogs from India
It feels good to get some recognition right at the beginning of the year. Backpacker, which now completes nine years ...
Odisha – My first impressions
I had no idea how I landed in Odisha at the start of this year. In fact I was planning ...
Happy New Year – 2014
Saying hello to the new year is a little birdie from the tree. Wishing you all a wonderful 2014, great ...