Category: Experience
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Badami , Pattadkal & Aihole (Part I – Banashankari Temple and Badami Museum)
The auto driver stopped his vehicle near a tree, picked up two incense sticks and lighted them with a matchstick. He walked towards the idol under the tree and prayed in front of it for two minutes as we watched him. Faith is something that stands like a rock no matter what is happening around […]
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Wandering in Delhi (Part 1) : National Museum
For a moment I thought I had missed my flight. This shattered me. Fortunately, I was just in time for collecting the boarding pass. I ran to the security queue and stood in line. Just fifteen minutes were left for final call. ‘Boli maga’, I cursed the taxi driver in Kannada under my breath for […]
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Mr Santham and his old RDs
I picked up a copy of Reader’s Digest (RD) magazine for the first time in a clinic when I was in 8th grade. Though I had a crush in my class during that time , RD was my first love. After my introduction to the magazine, I used to go to the clinic in the […]