Travelogue

It was the last week of November 2017; I travelled to Huaraz, Peru, South America to attend an International Conference on ‘Climate Change.’ The conference was held between 29 November and 1 December, 2017. Because of a long-distance…
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Mizoram, a tiny state, located in northeast India, is also known as the eastern extension of the Himalayas. It is called the land of rolling hills, the land of highlanders, and the nightingale of India. Mizoram has spectacular landscape –…
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Karnprayag to Bageshwar is one of the important cultural realms of both Garhwal and Kumaon Himalayas. The journey for this natural-cultural realm begins from Karnprayag (773 m), a town situated on the confluence of two rivers – the…
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It was the last day of the last month of 2019. I along with my family – daughter and wife – started travelling to Chakrata from Dehradun. Dehradun (652 m) is a city situated in the beautiful fertile valley, between the Ganga River in the…
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I along with my colleague trekked to Madhyamaheshwar (3220 m), a highland pilgrimage, located in Rudraprayag District, Uttarakhand. A trek goes to Madhyamaheshwar from Kalimath (1260 m), the abode of Goddess Kali (a female folk deity). It…
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Miles of dense woods, an array of greenery, the splashing sound of water as it pounds into a nearby rock, serpentine roads surrounded with perched up bodies of rock standing strong on the heart of the earth. Silence, peace, tranquillity…
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A state of magnificence and opulence, Rajasthan, also known as the Land of Kings, still has traces of age-old grandeur at the core of its being. The state was known as Rajputana before Independence in 1947. It consisted of 18 princely…
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