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11.5.2011 Kolkata This is to inform all my friends that we have completed our trip: Kolkata-Kanyakumari-Kashmir-Kolkata. We returned to Kolkata on Saturday, May 7 – exactly three months after we had begun this long journey. We travelled nearly 19,000 kms … Continue reading →

People come from all over the world to see Khajuraho. Oh! This then is Kama Sutra, they say. The truth is that less than 10 per cent of the sculptures at Khajuraho are erotic in nature. As I have said … Continue reading →

  4.5.2011 Khajuraho The sculptures at Khajuraho depict only one part of a woman’s life. May be the Chandella kings, who commissioned those temples and sculptures, whished so. Also there is not much variety and same or similar themes repeat … Continue reading →

3.5.2011 Khajuraho We have reached Khajuraho. We started quite early from Gwalior today. But the road was in an awful state from Gwalior to Jhansi. After Jhansi it improved a little bit. We were late to see the temples. We … Continue reading →

2.5.2011 Gwalior We are traveling fast indeed and everything around us is changing equally fast – the people, the environment, food, culture, colours, vegetation – everything. From Panipat, we went to Vrindaban and stayed at Mathura yesterday. This morning we … Continue reading →

30.4.2011 We are staying at Panipat tonight. Three great battles were fought here. No trace of them remains now. It is a dusty, rickety town of a few very rich and mostly very poor people. It is also a town … Continue reading →

29.4.2011 Chandigarh We reached Chandigarh yesterday. From Pahelgham we came to Pathankot, losing our way often. We had blindly followed advise of the locals, tried to save 30 kms and in the process wasted 2 hours riding through narrow, broken, … Continue reading →

28.4.2011 Chandigarh  WE REACHED CHANDIGRAH TODAY. ON THE WAY WE VISITED PAHALGAM AND PATHANKOT. SAD TO LEAVE KASHMIR. HAPPY TO LEAVE KASHMIR. MORE THAN KASHMIR’S BREATHTAKING NATURAL BEAUTY, WHICH DOESN’T NEED TO BE TOLD AGAIN, I FELL IN LOVE WITH … Continue reading →

22.4.2011 Sonamarg Less than two weeks ago we were in a desert in Rajasthan. Today we are at Sonmarg. There is snow all around us. The road has just been cleared. But most of the shops are still closed because … Continue reading →