So January turned out to be good. I walked 130kilometers. Almost same as January 2024. With summers around the corner, I intend to convert at least 50km into running. So far so good Average step count

I walked around 1600 kilometers in 2024. Lost unwanted weight and now I stand, weightwise, exactly where I was in 2022. I expect better things in 2025. I have decided to break down my fitness expedition

A few kilometers from my home lies this beautiful lake which we have seen since childhood. It has remained an integral part of our growing up days. I vividly remember that winters meant cleaning up the

The Chinese invasion of Tibet happened in 1959. Tibetans ran away from their own houses, some ran barefoot and some without any posessions. Many years in exile passed wherein people yearned for their people

On 22 December 2024, my reputation score was 60. It took me 25 days to go from 60 to 61. It took me 9 blog posts to go from 60 to 61. Now ecency is showing my rep score at 61. However, at the same hive

The last time I was here, the landscape looked liked this. These photographs were taken by me in 2013 during my first visit. But that was a decade ago. I thought much would have changed here but not so

Norbulingka or Norbu-lingka in Tibetan translates into many phrases in ordinary English. ‘Jewelled Garden’ or a ‘Treasure Garden’ are some of its translations. Norbulingka, unlike many other monasteries

Traditions die if they are not preserved. And along with them dies the history that teaches us invaluable lessons of faith, courage and perseverance. Tibetans may be living in India since decades but the

Imagine a landscape: a tiny hamlet in the middle of a vast farmland surrounded by trees and running water channels. In the backdrop, you can see a huge mountain wall laden with snow as far as you can see.

The Terminator told us that we would be living in a world of machines or maybe Robots, I do not remember because Terminator happened years, nay, decades ago. Let me look it up. Damn, it happened 40 years

2024 is over. Good fucking riddance I would say because the last few months were really difficult for me. Got severely affected by Common cold throughout November and Decemeber though they should stop

Sanjeev Sanyal’s ‘Land of the Seven Rivers’ takes you back in time to the era when River Saraswati wasn’t considered a figment of delusional Indian’s imagination. Sanyal lucidly walks us through the historical

Jaisalmer is an Indian city in the heart of the Thar Desert. While we were camping in the desert, we ran out of fuel and that’s how this citywide tea hunt started. As we broke camp, we realized that we

“What if it falls?”, that was the first question everyone asked while boarding the gondola cable car. To think of something as scary as this is one thing, to blurt it out in front of strangers is altogether

Tibet was once a secluded region in the Himalayas. Today it is a completely cut-off country. The very solitude that Tibetans yearned for from the external world turned out to be their worst adversary.

A couple of months ago, I uninstalled Instagram on my phone. Primarily because it was consuming too much of my time and making me pick phone every now and then. To do what, one may ask? To watch those

Once upon a time in the Himalayas

Americans were planning their first ever K2 expedition in 1974-75 and a team of experienced climbers was chosen to accomplish this insurmountable task. The mission went kaput and a climber who couldn’t

Ang Tharkay: The Greatest Sherpa Climber of All Times. To be called the G.O.A.T, I believe, you have to achieve something that’s never been done before and can’t be replicated in near future. Your achievement

Unputdownable. That’s what Into Thin Air is. Image Source: Flipkart.com Jon Krakauer, a journalist turned mountaineer on a journey of his life, experiences the glory of summitting the highest peak on Earth.