Beautiful Times in US – New Jersey
The first few days in US were tough. Getting used to the weather and food was the main highlights. The new colleagues at the office were really warm and helpful which made the stay their pleasant. We bought some Indian groceries and started cooking dinners. For lunch...
Gunga Din (1939)
How much would you enjoy a film which was made more than 70 years ago? Would you like the production quality? If it was an “Action Film”, will it still be entertaining enough? I had these questions when I sat down to watch ‘Gunga Din’ one Saturday evening. I must say...
Beautiful Times in US – Philadelphia
I am a simple IT professional with a dream like all IT folks - to go Onsite... I was offered a 2 months visit to Unites States and of course I grabbed the opportunity. So this small series is going to be about my experience of USA... So I left India on Friday the 13th...
Bird Watching in Kualalumpur
Bird watching is something most boys and men like to do. But it will definitely raise a few eyebrows if one were to put that down as a hobby in one’s profile. Well I happen to put it down as one of my hobbies for the birds I like to watch are the ones belonging to the...
Backpacking across South East Asia: Bangkok
Day 1 Puru: BerT and I took a cab to reach the Cambodia- Thailand border. At around 9:00 AM we crossed the border from the Poipet town of Cambodia and entered into Thailand. This was the first time when I crossed an international border on foot. 🙂 After...
The Man who would be King (1975)
What do you get when Rudyard Kipling meets Sean Connery, Michael Caine and John Huston? The Man who would be King is an intelligent piece of Cinema which is unabashedly entertaining especially for those who seek some good old fashioned adventure. Based on a short...
Backpacking across South East Asia: Pattaya, Thailand
The first thing which came to my mind while roaming in the streets of Pattaya was that it was the city of Nirvana for loser gringos with a fat wallet. But then, that’s just one side of it.
Backpacking across SE Asia: Banteay Srei & Preah Khan
Siem Reap -Day 2 Banteay Srei After Puru and BerT took the land route to Thailand, I had until the afternoon to explore the man-made wonders around. I planned to see Banteay Srei and Preah Khan, and squeeze in any other spots en route. En route to Banteay Srei, we...
Sea of Poppies ~ Amitav Ghosh
“The vision of a tall-masted ship, at sail on the ocean, came to Deeti on an otherwise ordinary day, but she knew instantly that the apparition was a sign of destiny ...” This is how Sea of Poppies unfolds to you; the first volume of Amitav Ghosh’s trilogy starting in...
How did I start blogging?
This post is inspired by a forum post in indiblogger asking people how did they start blogging. Well, I am a relative newbie to blogging / travel blogging and photography but I too have a story. Without much ado, lets see how it all started. April, 2010: Great...
Photography Lessons 7: Understanding Depth of Field
Now we come to a topic we have been promising to discuss for a very long time- Depth of Field. It is the range of distance in the photograph which appears in focus, ie, reasonably sharp. The Depth of field depends on several factors like aperture, focusing distance,...
A Lonely Sunday Afternoon
A lonely afternoon, dark, hot and humid, thanks to the powercut for long hours... not much to do and nowhere to go. Nothing what a Sunday should be like. Even the photographs are not much to talk home about, just as ordinary as this Sunday was...