After the architectural boat tour on last weekend, I had planned to visit the downtown area once again this weekend. The plan this time was to visit the John G. Shedd Aquarium and then, roam around the downtown area for sometime before heading back. To be very honest, I did not think I will enjoy visiting an ‘aquarium’, it …
BCMT Meet Bangalore – May 2015
After our last meet at Mainak da’s place we had hardly caught up and it was time to plan another meet. The good thing about this time’s meet however was that, unlike last few successful and couple of unsuccessful planning attempts, the gap between planning and materializing was very small. It was just a couple of days between planning and the meet which …
Land of Fire & Ice – Iceland
Everyone who enjoys travelling, seeing and exploring new places has that one place which (s)he dreams of visiting at-least once in their lifetime. Being someone who dreams about travelling the world day in and day out, I am no different and have my own set of dream-destinations. Among these, the destination that sits on top is Iceland. For most of the very few …
Hues of dusk – Nandi hills
There will be hardly anyone who has lived in Bangalore for more than a few months and has not paid at-least one visit to the famous Nandi hill, the most-visited place in and around the garden-city. So much so that it has actually become a cliché now. I myself have visited nandi hill more than a couple of times …
Khaspur – A kingdom in ruins
About twenty-five kilometers from the town of Silchar in southern Assam, lie the ruins of one of the most powerful kingdoms of their times, the Kachari kingdom, also known as the Dimasa kingdom. Not much is known about the origin of the Kachari kingdom which was established in the thirteenth century and was finally annexed by the British in 1854 but …