About 37 km ahead of Tawang (Arunachal Pradesh), at the height of 16,500 feet lies the Bum La Pass, where runs the historic McMahon line, defining the line of actual control between India and China. Bum La is a very remote pass where only a few travelers reach in...
Remain focused, opportunity will find you! Many times we stand at crossroads, not knowing the path to choose. If a choice is made then not knowing if it will take us to the destination. Ambiguity in life is the chariot, while the sixth sense is the chariot...
An empty Canvas, An artist’s fear! Ask an artist to describe the feeling, as one looks into an empty canvas, not knowing what to create. God, the supreme artist, has been forever creating beauty on the canvas of creation. So what is his fear? I believe, as...
The clay is the same, but the Fashioner has fashioned it in various ways. There is nothing wrong with the pot of clay – there is nothing wrong with the Potter. From the One Light, the entire universe welled up. So who is good, and who is bad? Says Kabir,...
Infinite is a circle with a circumference lying nowhere, but the centre lying everywhere. My pursuits end in a circular centricity, bound by egocentricity. Centre of universe lies within our self-ego, while the limitless creation is beyond limits. All through our being, we desire to attract materials to us,...
My article on the Dards has featured in July 2013 issue of Asian Geographic magazine. The relevant pages from the magazine can be viewed by clicking on the images below and scrolling. I have also provided the article content in text format for ease of reading. The Dards The Greek...
The entire architecture of the Golden Temple (Harmandar Sahib), the apex institution of Sikh faith at Amritsar, is an epitome of universal brotherhood. It’s foundation stone was laid by a spiritual leader (Mian Mir, the follower of Islam) of another faith, signifying that spirituality has no boundaries. It...
In the summer of 2010, I visited Tsomoriri lake in Ladakh (India), at a height of 15,000 feet. With snow covered high altitude roads, the region remains inaccessible for most of the year. In harsh weather conditions, the Changpa tribesmen continue to live in harmony with the environment....
The spectrum of my learning spans across engineering, music, management, philosophy, photography and writing. Learning engineering and management was tough but a relatively easy journey. I stayed on course, memorized the postulates and just applied them to situations. Same with music, where having learnt Raags (combination of notes) and...
Every river has a bank, Every culture a geography. In times of floods, the banks of rivers are breached, creating an uncontrollable flow of water but it soon falls back to it’s course. Similarly, in the past, there was a limit to how much a civilization could expand beyond...