India

  • Bangalore from a 13th floor

    Catching some late night city lights @ Bangalore. These pictures were shot (on a cell phone) from Ebony, the restaurant on the 13th floor of Barton Centre. It was almost 11 pm, around 2 hours after the blast on Church Street, last month. Linking to the memes: Catching the...
  • Roadside India | Sabarimala pilgrims

    When you look at the picture above, you probably see two seemingly overloaded lorries/trucks. Look closer and you will see that on the left, are a group of people and what seems like smoke. Pilgrims wearing black ‘mundus.’ Smoke it is. And the people in the picture are preparing...
  • Catching some New-Year-lights

    HAPPY NEW YEAR from Bangalore Caught: some New Year lights and their reflection on a car, on 100ft Road, Indiranagar, Bengaluru. (A cellphone photo.)  Linking to the meme:  For pictures from the road, Like/Follow Tipsy From The Trip on  Facebook.  Come, Trip with us. 😉 ...
  • Catching some morning light on the Cherai Lagoon

    Cherai Lagoon, Ernakulam District, Kerala Linking this post to the NF Meme– Catching the light You might also like (there are more pictures in this post): Cherai in the Monsoon For pictures from the road, Like/Follow Tipsy From The Trip on  Facebook.  Come, Trip with us. 😉 ...
  • Catching a Chennai Sunset

    A Chennai sunset Chennai is a city on the East Coast of India. The capital of the state of Tamilnadu, this city is usually a place to watch the sun rise from the Bay of Bengal, which lies to its left side. But here is a sunset from the...
  • Steeped in History, Royalty and Splendour

    Lalitha Mahal Palace, Mysore (side view) I was wowed by it the first time I saw it. That was over a decade ago. I was in college and in the middle of learning a few things about mass communication when a teacher of ours found us a great opportunity...
  • Cherai in the Monsoon

    Cherai is a coastal area north of Kochi in Ernakulam, Kerala*. It sits on a barrier island called Vypin Island. We found ourselves in this seaside town in August and spent a day enjoying its environs drenched in the Monsoon rains. Monsoon in Kerala is not quite the tourist...
  • Shopping in Guruvayur

    Guruvayur: Eat, Pray, Bargain

    Guruvayur Temple might be a place known to all Keralites, Krishna devotees and religious tourists. Now, those who have visited this famous temple in Thrissur, Kerala, will tell you it is quite a shopper’s delight, too. Shopping in Guruvayur — at least some window-shopping — is must here, trippers....
  • Home on the range*

    Remember a time when a vacation meant travelling to Ooty? Or Mysore? To me, these were places I went to in between holidays, when I was still in school and college. They were never holiday destinations; not to me. To me, a vacation meant driving to Wayanad. That’s the...
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