TFN and the rest of the trip">TFN and the rest of the trip

Day 3: Has­san to Madikeri

A day filled with scenic routes but a lot of climbs and pretty tir­ing too in the end. It turned out to be a long day for me. The best part was early on when we had the Gorur dam stretch opened up for us to cycle on — around 3–4 […]

December 28th, 2009  |  Published in Adventure, Cycling, India, Sports, Travel

Taming the bull – on cycle and on foot!

Our des­ti­na­tion: Nandi Hills, located about 60 km north of Ban­ga­lore and about 4800 ft above sea level. On top was Tipu Sultan’s sum­mer retreat and the remains of Tipu’s fort still remain. Tipu’s Drop, a 600 metre high cliff face, where pris­on­ers were hurled down the precipice when the king was really angry. Not […]

October 7th, 2009  |  Published in Adventure, Cycling, Hobbies, Running, Sports  |  15 Comments

Right on “Trek”!

So a year or so ago, I was pre­sented with a Her­cules bicy­cle. It’s a really reli­able cycle and stood me in good stead over quite a few long trips that I made. Of course, by the end of the trip, every mus­cle of mine would be strained, but at least I was get­ting some […]

June 22nd, 2009  |  Published in Adventure, Cycling, Hobbies, Living, Personal  |  15 Comments

An I-Day surprise

I woke up feel­ing slightly depressed on I-Day. A few nag­ging mat­ters refused to leave me in peace, and the best way to tackle this state, I’ve found over time, is to occupy myself with some activ­ity or another. 
Geetha and I had noble inten­tions of watch­ing the I-Day parade. Geetha had asked me the night […]

August 16th, 2006  |  Published in Entertainment, Living, Music, Personal  |  1 Comment

Yet another birthday

So I turned another year older today.

I can’t believe how the year went fly­ing past. I thought it was only the other day when I last cel­e­brated my birth­day!
I had the most won­der­ful birth­day, thanks to all of you who called and wished me includ­ing Rinku, Ruk­shana, Jaya, Shankar, Usha, Mona, Rup, Arpita, Vivek C, Arun […]

March 5th, 2006  |  Published in Living, Personal  |  21 Comments

Morning at Majestic

A cou­ple of week­ends ago, one early and not so bright morn­ing, Lavan­nya, Sabir, Vasu, Anu and I packed our pho­tog­ra­phy equip­ment and went to the Majes­tic bus sta­tion, City Mar­ket and Tipu Sultan’s Palace.

July 18th, 2005  |  Published in Hobbies, Living, Photography  |  10 Comments

Birthday, anniversary and a wedding!

Last week raced past me and I par­took in so many fes­tiv­i­ties that I felt life was one big party that was refus­ing to end! :)

July 4th, 2005  |  Published in Entertainment, Living  |  7 Comments

Honnemardu Blogout Weekend

‘Where the hell is Hon­nemardu’ is one reac­tion you might get when you men­tion the place. Many folks actu­ally have no idea where it is. By the end of this, you’ll soon find out. 

June 24th, 2005  |  Published in Adventure, Entertainment, Living, Nature & Wildlife, Photography, Travel  |  31 Comments