The Kerala calamity
Disasters affect people. Bridges can be rebuilt, houses can be acquired again, fields will be ready for harvesting soon enough, roads will be repaired, rivers recede, mountains ready themselves for new paths, and even the land strives to even all the upheavals it has experienced, but in the memory of people a disaster remains for...
The creative writer and kayaking
I’m not new to kayaking. The first time I stepped into a kayak was on the River Denva in Madhya Pradesh in tiger territory. This was two years back and I was participating in the NDTV-Volvo Adventure Challenge then and our task was to kayak to a location about a couple of hours distance to...
Be the storyteller of Wayanad
About ‘travelling’, Ibn Battuta reportedly said that ‘it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.’ I guess this is true of every place on earth… and I can vouch for this as I have travelled to many places both within and outside India and have been building my treasure of stories slowly and...