iPad:This is NOT about Apple’s latest product

Last night, I was waiting to watch the release of ‘Apple Tablet’ like many Apple enthusiasts all over the world until I could wait no more. I fell asleep. So, I was half asleep when I asked ‘Apple Tablet release vayo?’ (Is the Apple Table out yet?)  The reply was: ‘Hoina tesko naam iPad raicha.’ [...]

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अघिल्लो ब्लगमा ‘जयपुर साहित्य महोसत्सव’ बारे के के न लेखुँला जस्तो गरेँ तर अहिलेसम्म केहि लेखेको छैन । उसो त बनारस भ्रमण बारे पनि खतरा नियात्रा लेख्छु जस्तो लागेको थियो but I was suffocated by my own Plan-Ghats, Ganges and the Gallis. मलाई काशीनाथ बारे लेख्दा लेख्दै बनारस overdose भयो । झाँसी, र्ओचा र खजुराहो [...]

National Highway 8- Road Trip, India

There is something extremely beautiful about road trips- something my limited vocabulary in this language is unable to express. A speeding machine swallowing miles and miles within minutes, an old tape stuck in the cassette player meaning no music, intimidating 18 and 22 wheelers, truck literature ,and yes, even that the urgency to pee! And [...]

Kashi Vishwanath, Varanasi

Varanasi has always been one of the top tourist destinations in India but for a Nepali like me it never actually ‘sounded’ like one. My impressions of the city has always been related to the Hindu belief that Kashi is THE place to die to attain Moksha (salvation). True to this belief hundreds of thousands [...]

Glimpses of Varanasi (Part I)

To begin my travelogue with Varanasi might seem like a very pious thing to do but with all due respect to Kashi Vishwanath(Lord Shiva) I did not feel one bit religious in the ‘Holy City’. It might have been entirely my fault I was not able to connect to any religious aspect of the place [...]

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