Ayutthaya- The other Ayodhya

Headless statues, limbless statues, columns with their roofs missing. It would seem we are in a battlefield…

Bath Place — a 17th century watering hole in Oxford

We landed in Oxford with no specific plan, other…

Our Europe trip — Part 1: London

(Text- Cris, Photos — Praveen)

Belfast — Where the Titanic was built

The nightmarish flight from London (avoid Stansted airport, if you can!) to Belfast ensured…

The tiled roofs of Bern

The old city of Bern is filled with these magnificent buildings with tiled roofs. Realised that such structures, or…

Carrickfergus castle and my old stamp album

Carrickfergus castle, built way back in AD 1177, is one of the first things that you…

In Calcutta, in search of the childhood home….and beef

The London Skyline

There is hardly a better place to get a ‘free’ view of the London skyline than the top floor of the Tate Modern, which…

Sunderbans — masked and unmasked by the tides

Here begins many a journey, some on the way back to their slowly sinking homes…

Almost-Stanley-Kubrick

A Stanley Kubrick lookalike in the streets of Bern. 
At a street corner, a celloist was playing some enchanting tunes…