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Uttarakhand and I: stories
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Saturday, January 10, 2009. Here are links to some posts you might like:. Places to visit in Dehra, and tales of the people I have met here. One of the most important issues to be resolved when one visits a new place, and also a question I am asked frequently. This is a list of my favourite places to grab a bite or two- and to make life easier each place is classified depending on whether you can take your mum there or not. Friday night and no idea of what to do over the weekend? As the movie channel.
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Uttarakhand and I: December 2008
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008. Going, going, gone. 8220;An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old one leaves.”. And no matter what category tickles your fancy, I do hope you stay up till midnight. So 00:00 does not have any cosmic significance, and frankly, looking at the past year can be a bit depressing, but that is why we look at the year-to-come instead. And 11:59 of 31. What do you plan to do? I am using this. Friday, December 26, 2008.
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Uttarakhand and I: Snow at home
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Friday, December 19, 2014. We were all worrying about drought this winter. The middle of December and not a drop of rain. The oats were looking sad, and the roses were wilting despite my best efforts. And then one evening, clouds gathered. Saturday morning, we woke to heavy snowfall. That was a cold, cold day and Mian and I sat huddled in front of the bukhari. Sunday, we woke to Paradise. View across the valley. Lemon leaves and snow. Fruit orchard and pond. My 'office'. Now too cold to work in. Banno, d...
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Uttarakhand and I: June 2009
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Sunday, June 28, 2009. The hill of fairies. Witches' Hill. The place where all settlement attempts have been answered by lightning. Where ghostly lights are seen, and no one dares to spend a night. How could I resist? I went there this Saturday. For help, I took along Bill Aitken's description of the walk which is available online here. And my trusty falling-apart-at-the-seams H44G03. To eat: bananas, sweets and water. A cap, an umbrella. The description of what one should. I watched the movie Friday nig...
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Uttarakhand and I: I hate being ill.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015. I hate being ill. Now, I could have lived with that if it were not for the timing. After two weeks of being apart, Mian and I had planned to meet for half a day. After that, the next 'together' time is the middle of March. And so, this was a supposed to be a fun day-nudge nudge, wink wink. Hah. Read the first paragraph again. Bless him, HE is eternally patient and kind and understanding. But that is not the situation I want. Is that too much to ask? You are his love. Drinking...
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Uttarakhand and I: November 2008
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Thursday, November 27, 2008. Those of you who know me in my guise of a cushion propped up on a settee next to a steaming mug, picture this:. Two of the three are wearing expressions of ferocious concentration. The cushion is wearing a fatuous grin. “Hee” she is thinking, “This is me; I am here. I am a grassroots worker in the Himalayas walking 7 km to a mountain hamlet accessible only on foot to help establish decentralized governance. Wow. ”. Quote of the week. And who is them? The next week, I am off t...
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Uttarakhand and I: So
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Sunday, January 10, 2010. Who, exactly,. And what is this blog about? And now that we are asking, why. Is this 'I' writing? Is Chicu. I am a civil engineer by training, traveller by yearning. I work at conserving rivers and play at writing about them . After spending most of my life on the western coast of India, I upped and moved to the Himalayan foothills in 2008 to be confronted by a whole different world. And that is what. I write this blog. To tell my friends what is going on in my life. That is a l...
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Uttarakhand and I: May 2009
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Saturday, May 30, 2009. The gods of signboards have a sense of humour. Considering what I wrote about Malsi Deer Park. When I visited, this name change seems rather appropriate, does it not? Friday, May 29, 2009. I am lucky. I was wearing a helmet at the time, and I still have what is left of it. The left jaw of that helmet has been shaved away till the inner foamy lining. That could have been my face. Why am I telling you these gory details? Wear a helmet, buckle a seat belt. Please. Sunday, May 24, 2009.
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Uttarakhand and I: February 2009
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009. I would hate to be a bird. It’s not just the lack of opposable thumbs that would get me down, the things that humans called me would depress me. What were people thinking when they named birds? Here are things that would vex me:. The Pied Mynah is also the Pied Starling. Is it supposed to steal things like a starling, or merely have raucous parties like a mynah? Decisions, Decisions. Is it surprising that whenever I have seen it, it has been sitting alone and brooding? And i...
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Uttarakhand and I: Five years
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Thursday, August 13, 2015. And this little gang of cousins is all grown up now. Well, almost. Not too old to not be seduced by the magic of Harry Potter and his friends. Here they are, 5 years after I last saw them. September 7, 2015 at 5:48 AM. September 7, 2015 at 5:48 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Places I call home. Sawantwadi. Goa. Pune. Aurangabad. Seattle. Dehradun. Chatola. Subscribe in a reader. Places to eat in dun. City Library – Yunus Jaffery’s Books, Ganj Mir Khan.
