Image credit: Oregonstate.edu This year end I am looking forward to spend my vacation in Sri Lanka. The ticket was booked by my friend through Cleartrip.com. We got a pretty good deal of around Rs 6500 for return trip to Sri Lanka. But he had entered my nick name as my first name. So the…
Online shopping has started to catch up in India by 2005. To give it further fillip, Google India organized Great Online Shopping Festival (GOSF) for the first time in 12th December, 2012. This was done on the lines of Cyber Monday which follows Thanks Giving day in the US. Cyber Monday later spread to many…
Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arnabmaity/8805690430/ I was born and spent the early days of my life in one of the wettest place in India. I have a natural affinity to wetlands. But you will ask me: Does the tourist has a business there? I say yes! With developing tourism facilities and raising awareness, the average tourists can…
Nagar Kirtan is a procession taken out by the Sikhs wherever they are in considerable numbers. Nagar Kirtan literally means singing of divine hymns around the town. Typically, the procession is taken out before the Prakash utsav in the month of Vaisakhi. I have seen this procession before in Bangalore. But this is the first…
Wine as a beverage drinks is catching up fast in India and leading in this regards is the UB group with their Four Seasons wines. Four Seasons has been quite aggressive in promoting their wines. Recently, I was invited to one of their promotional wine tasting events at Fawa, UB City, Bangalore. The host did…
On the first Sunday of October 2013, me and another photographer friend set out to explore Melkote. It was my first visit there, though I have read about it and has been on my radar for long time. Early morning he picked up in his car and pretty quick we were on Mysore road after…
This Monday (09/09/2013) was Ganesh Chaturthi. A very auspicious day according to Hindu religion. The festival is celebrated with much enthusiasm all over India. Colorful idols are made for the elephant headed god in all forms. The day before people come to particular locations like around RV road, Bangalore to pickup the idol for prayer…
In the plains of India or otherwise almost everyone drinks tea but many will not have idea how tea powder is made. Many of them might have seen tea plantations during their visit to some hill station. But they will have hardly any idea how the tea leaves transforms into tea powder. View of tea…
On Saturday last week did a little experimental photography in the backyard of IT corridor of Whitefield, Bangalore. The pictures were taken just before dawn. In these pictures mainly captured the night skyline of Whitefield IT corridor and nearby IT company buildings. The IT corridors makes Bangalore as a city which never sleeps. Some of…
