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• SMS Without a Phone Or Network Or Electricity Even!

  

  The Adis have lived in the remote hills of the Upper Siang in Arunachal Pradesh at the frontier of the country with Tibet for centuries. Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Things Fall in Place

  

  I arrived to my study-village in Arunachal Pradesh after more than a year, hungover from times in America, and from four days spent at home in Bangalore. Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Forest with a White-browed Canopy

  

  Nokrek National Park is a thin slice of forest perched on a ridge with Garo villages on all sides, with an area of less than 50 sq. km. Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Chillis That Can Capsaize You!

  

  It really looks like a dull chilli, with an uneven axis and the most modest appearance for being the hottest chilli in the world! But one bite changes it all... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Siang Winter's Tale

  

  Fire brings everyone together! (photo by Robin Abraham)I have spent five of the last six winters in Upper Siang, Arunachal, and this time I am not there! I... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Tobacco Trails/trials

  

  I still remember the time the salt-and-pepper-bearded always-smiling old man asked me to get tobacco back to Bomdo. He said, "just get this here, and we will... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Woodstock in a Wooded Place!

  

  Earlier in the day it had rained. Rained so much we were wondering how the rock show would go on. Not far away, the Apatani farmers were harvesting rice; it... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Damn That River

  

  The beautiful Siang (photo by Anirban Datta-Roy)The river roars with whitewater in some sections while in others it flows gentle and placid holding secrets of... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Couch Potato in the Forest

  

  The crossword puzzle cuckoo continuously calls, intermittently a green pigeon sings or perhaps tries to sing; melody for some, closer to cacophony for others.... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Breakfast of the Champions

  It's so good, I didn't want to take a picture of it; I can just think about it and picture the taste perfect! Have you ever eaten a plate of Doh Sniang, a... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Field This Time...

  A month back I had packed for a field trip in north-east India for about 45 days, and after several trial-and-errors over several years, I think I got the... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• A Day with the Hornbills and Their Protectors!

  

  Its not any day that one begins in a crowded city like Bangalore and sleeps the night in Arunachal Pradesh! And its even rarer to sleep the same night in a... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Memories of Garo Hills

  

  In the year 2006, I had applied for a job in South Garo hills, Meghalaya and having got the job I was really excited to move to north-east India from Bangalore. Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Star of the Hills!

  

  The trigger for me to purchase a two-wheeler about three years back for my field work in Upper Siang district in Arunachal was an interesting one. Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• ...and Friending the Fern

  

  This post follows from the previous post 'gilding the lily', do read it if you haven't already...The Adis from Bomdo village seldom clear an interesting plant... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2013 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• The Great Crossing

  

  May is not the best month to be around here in Upper Siang Arunachal. The rains that go on for almost the entire month nudge the lands to slide blocking roads,... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2013 TRAVEL

• Gilding the Lily

  

  To a first time visitor, like it was to me four years back when I came here, the landscape around the village may seem like a random hotch-potch of currently... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 TRAVEL

• The Beginner's Buck

  

  The Bomdo village is located close to the Siang river, the river half-circumambulates around the village owing to the terrain. Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2013 TRAVEL

• Bomdo with and Without Electricity

  Its Steinbeck when I get back to the dark already-misty Inspection 'Bungalow' in Bomdo village in Upper Siang; starry sky, the orion, jupiter, the big dipper,... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2012 TRAVEL

• Twisting by the Pool!

  

  I have learnt swimming only this year at the National Centre for Biological Sciences swimming pool. Very nice; a changing room, put on trunks, take along a... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2012 TRAVEL