14 January is celebrated in India as Makar Sankranti. It's an ancient Hindu festival dedicated to the deity Surya (the sun) and signifies the end of ...
C’est La Vie!
We received an invitation to attend a wedding in November 2019. It was not just 'any' wedding. For one, it was to be held in Goa. That in itself is ...
Seychelles
Gondwana or Gondwanaland was a supercontinent that existed from the Neoproterozoic (about 550 million years ago) until the Jurassic (about 180 million ...
Halting the Slide into Oblivion
I inherited my passion for photography from my Dad. Between the mid-fifties through to the late seventies he used a series of cameras including a ...
I wish…
My Aunt Carmen passed away a week ago. She was 92. One of four siblings, of which my mother was the eldest, she was the last living member of her ...
Happiness: Sum of Simple Things.
29th June, 2019. Calangute, Goa. 6.30am A dull, continuous roar from the direction of the horizon catches my attention. Initially, I mistake it for ...
NE Frontier Birding: Arunachal Pradesh & Assam
A few years ago I managed to coax my wife to join me on a birding weekend to a remote but beautiful location in Goa. We did see a large number of ...
Buffy
She was beautiful. Her jet black coat was exceptionally glossy and gave her a slightly demonic air that prompted us to name her 'Buffy', after the ...
Netravali – A Jewel in the Western Corridor
I love Goa. Having said that, the one time of the year that I am least inclined to visit is - surprisingly - during Christmas. Packed with tourists, ...
Images of the Year Gone By…
A long, long time ago I was sitting on a beach with a friend watching the sun set. She had this intense look on her face and when I asked her ...