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• Atypical Goan Day

  

  [the title similar to my other post 'Atypical Bomdo evening', you might enjoy that one] Normalcy is highly underrated. I realised it the hard way today. The... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2026 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• An Ode to a Tree

  

  Special thanks to Divya Mudappa and TR Shankar Raman for remembering which sapling I planted two decades ago!Out there somewhere far far away, on a beautiful... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2026 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Dueulogy

  

  I always nap in the afternoon when home in Goa. This afternoon I woke up with the shock of knowing that Suresh Jones—a dear friend, founder of the Loris... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2026 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Gentle Giant with a Heart of Gold

  

  A friends family arrives to my Goa home every year during the new year eve. We play a little music, we discuss life, we visit a Japanese restaurant for lunch, w... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2026 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Lows and Highs - the Ebbs and Tides - the Fall and Rise

  

  The water during a high tide on a beach gushes in loudly and surprises me with how high it rises. It moves in slowly but reaches out far in and grasps as much... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2023 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Legacy Lives on

  

  The first time I met Yoayella, whom I affectionately call Yoyo, was during Elrika's month-long seagrass survey around the main Andaman island. A small humble,... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2022 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Noble Island

  

  Imagine, for one, a ten-hectare woody parcel of land, next imagine it's an island with hardly any people living on it and very few inhabitations around the... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2022 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Island in the Sun

  

  My last visit to the Andamans was more than three years back. Elrika and I had gone north for a while to Mayabunder and villages around such as Webi and... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2022 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• How the Kombucha Culture Diffused into My Life!

  

  The month was March 2020 and it was late into the month. So late, the Prime Minister had announced a lockdown to arrest the spread of Coronavirus and bolstered... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2022 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Original Organic Kombucha

  

  For this fizzy delicious kombucha, I use organic tea leaves, organic sugar, scoby and kombucha. The ratio used is shown below. It was posted in the facebook... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Cycling Trivialities - Part IV

  

  There are some neat bike-cleaning videos out there on the internet and this particular one impressed me so much that I cleaned mine right after watching it! Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Cycling Trivialities – Part III

  There is a certain simplicity about cycling that I enjoy: a physical push applied to the pedals or a pull if one is wearing cleats causes the crank to move. Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Cycling Trivialities - Part II

  

  Cycling often brings back childhood memories; growing up three decades or so ago, I used to take money from parents and rent bicycles for 5 bucks an hour or eve... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Cycling Trivialities - Part I

  

  Life moves slow as you cycle. You get to know every dent on the tarmac and the trail that you are on; every bit of ascent and descent, every stone and every... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2020 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Village Gets Connected to the World

  Its just another Sunday morning, things are easy and slow; a bit laidback, a bit purposeful and a bit hungry. So, I got my bike out, eat a heavy breakfast,... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2018 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Ghost of My Genes

  

  ... the landscape had hills, not hills of the kind I'm used to seeing. Rocky hillocks with shrubbery sprinkled on them, all in contrast with blue skies with... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2017 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Micro Stories 2

  

  The following was written during my stay in the Bomdo village in Arunachal Pradesh in May 2015. While writing loosely-connected short anecdotes, I drift a lot... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Palming off the Forests: Implications of Introducing Oil Palm Plantations in...

  

  An oil palm plantation landscape (photograph by Arati Kumar-Rao)Oil palm plantations are lucrative and are being actively encouraged by the Government across... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Of a Big Meal and Curry Leaves, Pressure Cooker and a Bose Speaker!

  

  The following was written during my stay in the Bomdo village in Arunachal Pradesh in May 2015. While writing loosely-connected short anecdotes, I drift a lot... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2016 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Who Moved My Greenhouse Plastic?!

  

  This post is a thin slice from the times spent in Upper Siang, Arunachal. For my research on forest recovery following shifting cultivation, I introduced... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL