I climbed up the monkey steps with perhaps the last reserves of energy and then stumbled onto the clearing of the Sun gate. There, stood in front of me, a view I had yearned for the years. The mist had risen and was holding itself off on the mountain tops. The river meandered peacefully in[…]
Deciding a place to travel to while I am in Germany is a terribly difficult task. While I would love to visit all the places on my list, financial and time considerations make that only a pipe dream. I am consistently reshuffling the priorities on the list each time I come across a fascinating travel[…]
In a few weeks, I shall be whizzing back to her for a short visit and I am getting the definite jitters. Would United States of America also be the way I remember her? Would she be the way I left her? After making it habit of leaving home(s), I always treasure the trip back.[…]
What is clear to me is that this blog needs a revamp. Usually this means a dramatic post to end it all, a temporary gap in writing to realize the fallacy of that drama, and then a ‘return’ post to iterate that everything was indeed OK and the sun did rise just as early the[…]
It is not that I have forgotten but rather I just don’t know what to make of it. On this day, nice round ten years ago, I walked through the double doors of my home in India towards the air-sealed doors of an airplane towards the United States of America. Destiny back then was only[…]
yellow signs with exclamation marks can’t be good It has been well over a year since I have been here and my German is at best comparable to young child who isn’t really on the top of the curve himself. It is a fact that I am most times at peace with my incapability’s. But every once[…]