A journey to the land of colours in the dark As the title very aptly suggests, we went on an 8-day tour, literally chasing the Northern Lights in Norway — known worldwide as the “land of the midnight sun”. Of course, during our journey, we realized that this phrase is…

In the year 2019, all I could dream of was to visit Japan. I spent hours researching the best possible places to visit. Somehow I could never reach my optimal budget, or should I say, come down to my optimal budget. I decided to push Japan to mid-2020. In the…

I got COVID in 2021 & 2022 and as terrible as it sounds, the mental repercussions were far more virulent than the physiological ones. I am writing them down here so that it becomes a shared collective pain. It was the month of April — my social life was…

The mind wanders to funny places, I think. That was definitely what my family thought when I told them I will be attempting a 200-kilometre long-distance cycling event. I could almost hear my late grandfather squeak in bouts of wonderment & despair. “Why on earth would I buy a cycle…

They say when it rains it pours. Till this point, I was never a believer of fate, never superstitious or believed in the power of an almighty. I thought I was spiritual to some extent but with 2020, spirituality seemed like an obsolete concept. To get to the series of…

Being confined to one’s home can be challenging. Many of us are looking inwards trying to solve this mystery called “the mind”. We are constantly trying to yank out the muck that consists of our internal biases, our constant dismal judgement towards the self and the world today. So, along…

Originally Posted on 1st December 2015 for SWMRT A little about my own tryst with composting & all about walking that extra green mile Plants, as the curriculum in my 4th-grade environment textbook stated, were living organisms, just like you and I. They exhaled oxygen and inhaled harmful carbon dioxide…

Sustainable tourism is increasingly becoming more fashionable, more widespread and adopted across travellers worldwide. With recent environmental hazards creating a detrimental impact on society, it is now becoming evident that we as humans pose a grave threat to our natural surroundings as well as the harmful impact environmental degradation has…

I’ve lived a moderately sedentary lifestyle. I tried my hand at several sports growing up, but as soon as it got difficult — or at times where I was challenged beyond my abilities — I would quit. You can say I was a sore loser After I moved to Bangalore…