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To balance the fiction with something else: I also do travel writing, the occasional work of humour, book reviews, essays on various topics I feel strongly about (plagiarism is one).
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(This is the third and final part of a three-part Rajasthan travelogue. The first post, about our trip to Sariska National Park, can be read here, and the second part, about four forts—Bhangarh (on the border of Sariska) and Jaigarh ..read more
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(The first part of this series of travelogues, about Sariska National Park, is to be found here). On our last day in Sariska, we were scheduled to go on a morning safari, and had to wake up at an unearthly ..read more
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5M ago
This is part 2 of two connected blog posts. The first post, about my visit to Dehradun for a literary festival (and, more so about the sightseeing in the city) is here. After our trip to Dehradun, we got back ..read more
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5M ago
September was a busy month for me. Unusually (for me) I had to travel on work; and that, not once but twice. On September 15th, I was discussing the Delhi Quartet at The Literary Table’s festival of arts and literature ..read more
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1y ago
(Part 1 of this travelogue, Historic Ahmedabad, can be read here). Our sojourn in Ahmedabad stretched across most of four days: a day and a half after we landed in Ahmedabad from Delhi, and another just-over-two days before we left ..read more
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1y ago
A couple of years ago, my husband and I took our daughter (whom I refer to as the ‘LO’: the ‘Little One’, though given that she’s now ten and no longer little, she suggests that that now be ‘Loved One ..read more
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1y ago
Most tourists seem to focus on the Mall and the Ridge, but there’s plenty to see beyond that as well. While I covered our forays along the Mall in Part 2 of this set of travelogues, here I’ll be describing ..read more
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1y ago
(For Part 1 of this travelogue, click here). On Day 3 of our Himachal trip, we left Kasauli and drove up (with an abortive detour at Arki, as described in Part 1) to Shimla. At Shimla, we were booked to ..read more
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2y ago
Some of you may know about my now nine-year old daughter, the Little One or LO (though at her age, I guess it’s high time I thought up another epithet; she’s hardly little any more). The LO has, since she ..read more
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5y ago
(The first part of this travelogue is here). On the third day after we arrived in Nairobi, we were scheduled to leave for Masai Mara. Our driver, Joseph (“Jesus’s father?” the LO asked, when she heard his name) arrived early ..read more