We started from Pune towards Pandharpur early in the morning at around 6 and the question on everyone’s mind was where could we have breakfast at this unearthly hour before moving forward? Hungry and craving for breakfast, we turned to google for help but all the restaurants that came up were still to open for the day. Except, of course, for Amruteshwar Bhawan - ou…
Read moreA man bowing down in prayer at Mecca Masjid, Hyderabad. O, traveller: What do you see? That which fits in your barricaded frame, That person is not me. O, traveller: Step away from your point of focus And come across. Strip off your baggage of name and fame Let all these go for a huge toss. O, traveller: Come, come and sit beside m…
Read more... My Best Friend Even though we have known each other for a lifetime, I think my part of the bonding really started only around 8 years back… I remember that day so vividly. I had walked up to him asking him to read something I had written in my diary. It was an essay about a place we had recently visited, written, after much prodding by my brother, who …
Read morePune is one of the India’s greatest cosmopolitan food cities and as you start exploring the city you realize there is no dearth of traditional as well as more contemporary delicious flavors to sample and savour everywhere you go. Talk of street food, traditional or international cuisine – Pune is a city which packs it all in! Restaurants of all levels for eve…
Read moreHe lies there, still, not a movement, eyes closed, a distinct calming aura radiating around his face… if peace is for real, this is it – I say to myself. Someone standing near, bursts in a bout of tears. A few others follow suit. The cries around break my attention from him, turning it instead, towards the sadness all around. The atmosphere is heavy, emotions …
Read moreThe camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. - Dorothea Lange. Today is the 7th chapter in the book of #Soulie , a page I have been publishing every Saturday since the past seven weeks and I thought it is a good time to collect all the posts that bloggers have shared with My Yatra Diary... for the project ever since. Befo…
Read moreFrom a long walk in Coles Park to saying a prayer at the Bull Temple, from hundreds of coffee shops to fantastic weather, you can’t help falling in love with this amazing city which we call Bangalore, but is better known as ‘The Garden City of India’ and ‘The Silicon Valley of India’. Okay, first let me correct myself politically. Now it is officially renamed a…
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