POTD: Prayer flags 🚩

“The Buddhists….put their prayer flags where the wind will blow them and their prayer wheels in the streams where the water will turn them and get on with their work while the prayers are said. I think that is wisdom.” – Rumer Godden, British author  The photo is a view from the Buddhist temple at the…

Good reads for the monsoon 2020 #2 🗺

“We were the usual: nine-to-sixers, investment-makers, mall-goers, office-trippers and city-slickers. We were life-going-to-seeders.”…reads the opening para on the back cover of the book. Usual is common and common is boring; so what do they transform into? The authors are the writer couple Devapriya Roy and Saurav Jha. This is my third book by Devapriya Roy….

On the Tibetan trail in Dharamshala 2018

  Day 2 Dharamshala a quaint hill town in the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh framed by the Dhauladhar ranges, nestled amidst the deodar slopes, serving as a cantonment area; all of a sudden, was thrust into the limelight with the arrival of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Though Dharamshala has been the home…

Dharamshala : Quaint, calm & drizzling charm

From Amritsar, we reached Dharamshala by 3: 15 pm and our driver enquired whether we wanted to first go to our hotel or McLeod Ganj. We didn’t want to waste time checking-in and lounging at the hotel and so we chose to head straight to McLeod Ganj. Dharamshala is a cantonment area. It is located in…