Travel

Two years later, headed out to US again – Chicago and LA this time – only difference from last time, an additional phone and a blackberry to carry along with me. And more chargers as well!! Customer meetings, Internet Retailer Conference and meeting family….packed schedule!! Meanwhile head over to Uradiance and read a beautiful post [...]

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Bangalore – Goa by road

4 day weekend; 2 Adults, 3 kids in a Santro; Bangalore to Goa via Gokarna and back; 1400 kms; hot weather; wouldn’t do it again….

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Another Program, Another City

Heading out to Bellary tonight to teach the Apex Program.

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Travelling

This time to Bhuj in Gujarat to teach the APEX program. Posts will be slow to come by. Will be back with photos!

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To Chennai

Traveling to Chennai for an Art of Living Corporate program ( APEX program ) for the faculty of a B school. Loving it!!

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The death of Ganga and Himalayas!

“The Holy River is in its terminal phase as public apathy and gross ecological violations squeeze its future. This is not alarmism, it may die sooner than you think.” writes Open Magazine. I had wanted to post about this along with some photographs that we had taken about the devastation all along the way, but [...]

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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 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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