If I had to choose two words that define the ethos of the hillfolk I met during my brief sojourn in Kandbari, they would be simple and contented. This is the fifth in a series of ten Hubs on a holiday in Kandbari. Beauty abounds in the hills of...
This is the first in a series on Kandbari, a charming, little-known hill station in the North Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Kandbari lays no claim to fame. In fact the vast majority of Indians would be unaware that such a...
Let me be honest. I see no option but to turn to the subject of sex (what else?) to increase readership. Previous attempts at humour, religion, politics, birding, nature and what have you, have met with little success. So as politics is to the...
India, my wise friend wrote the other day, is a land of contrasts and contradictions. It is a land of peace and war, of love and hate and many other emotions. You can spend a lifetime and be none the wiser in trying to understand India’s vast...
To be honest, my life has not seen many, what may be termed momentous changes. One of these came courtesy a small, innocuous ad in the newspaper. Inviting applications for Marketing Managers for East Africa. Sure enough a few months later, there I...