Category Archives: Photography
BACK TO DELHI AND ON TO HARIDWAR
I always found going back to Delhi exciting and this blog is an amalgam of back to Delhi from Nepal, and ten months later back to Delhi from France before a road trip up to Kashmir, which apparently was on … Continue reading
CALCUTTA A CITY OF CULTURE AND REFUGEES..draft
” Poverty and Pride..Side by Side” Rudyard Kipling on Calcutta “You are never alone in Calcutta” Michael Jennings The Howrah Mail ( “ the superfastmail train of Indian railways connecting two metropolitan cities of India, Kolkata and Chennai” ..Fast is all rather … Continue reading
MAMALLAPURAM AND CHENNAI… first draft
The road from Pondicherry to Mamallapuram followed the coast, for the most part around a kilometre inland, offering views from time to time of endless golden beaches glimpsed in between luxuriant tropical vegetation. The little hamlets of thatched huts … Continue reading
PONDICHERRY A BEAUTIFUL CITY AND SCANDAL AT AUROBINDO ASHRAM
Walking along the sea front at Pondicherry you could be anywhere except India.. At 5 in the afternoon before the ‘passeggiata’ starts and just after the road has been closed the sea front is almost devoid of people. A little … Continue reading
Madurai The Great Temple of Meenakshi Amman, Festival of Mariamman
‘Madri Madri Madri’ The driver shouted out to us sleeping passengers in our double beds in the bus from Cochi to Madurai. I was suddenly as shocked as I’d been 7 hours beforehand when I got on the bus to … Continue reading
