A pilgrimage up North – Part 6: Badrinath

The road between Gopeshwar and Badrinath is quite narrow and operates on a one way system, so we left Gopeshwar early in the morning so as to catch the uphill going traffic towards Badrinath post Joshimath stopping enroute at Gauchar on the banks of Alaknanda to have our breakfast and then it was a straight [...]

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A pilgrimage up north – Part 5: Rambara to Gopeshwar

The first few steps were killing, every time I had to take a step down the knee would hurt badly and I had seven kilometers to trek down. The walking stick that we had carried with us was turned out to be very helpful and I began a very slow, very painful walk down the [...]

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A pilgrimage up North – Part 4: Rambara to Gaurikund Trek

Pawan and Nitika started a little ahead with the kids while Meena and I took a leisurely stroll back to Rambara, this part of the trek was awesome! Even if you cannot do the trek uphill, I recommend everyone to walk down the hills. It was exhilarating, the snow capped peaks in the distance, the [...]

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A pilgrimage up North – Part 3: Rambara to Kedarnath

The last couple of kilometeres, we found were the hardest for us. In the distance we could see the destination, but our pace had slowed down considerably, it started snowing very lightly and Meena was having a tough time coping with the journey. She had tried hard to build up endurance for this trek and [...]

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A Pilgrimage up North – Part 2 – Dehradun to Kedarnath

Our first destination was Kedarnath – one of the four char dham sites and as per Wikipedia, the most remote one as well. The only way to reach Kedarnath is via a 14Km uphill trek from Gaurikund. We hired couple of reliable Amby’s and off we went from Dehradun to Gaurikund – the place where [...]

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A pilgrimage up North – Part 1

We did not plan it as a pilgrimage, but that’s what it turned out to be. And a fabulous one at that! It all began one day when Sreesh – my son – saw a small hillock and said “Look Dada, Himalayas” and we decided, let’s go up north and show the kids the real [...]

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“be all that you can be”

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Bathing in The Presence!!

Growing up in a large family full of relatives, I was called by different names by different folks – some of the names being that of the Divine. It is a different story how I got the name that I have now, but that we will keep it aside for some other time. One of [...]

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Do what you love!!

[Via Alexander]

Try it yourself: Go to google, type in “my job is ” and look at the suggestions. Here’s what I got:

What a pity!!
I am sure APEX can help change some of this negativity!!
For me I am loving what I am doing….heading out to Pune tonight to teach the APEX program. I know I [...]

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Raise a toast!!

5 years of blogging!! Can’t believe that I have been blogging since 5 years!! Butterscotch Ice Cream on the house tonight Off to Hyderabad for another APEX program starting tomorrow!!

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