RIP Your Royal Highness
I won’t make this a very long post, nor will I rehash the late Prince Philip’s life – we’ve all got Wikipedia/the Beeb/vicious Twitter trolls to do that for us. …
Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown
I have my US-based friend Tunku Varadarajan to thank for alerting me to this absolutely delicious story first thing this morning, while I was having my pre-morning-run cuppa and perusing …
Climbing “my” mountain
It was in late April 2018 that I climbed to the summit of the very steep hill opposite our friends Shefali & Christopher’s home in the Tirthan valley in Himachal. …
Happy Holi from the hills
The Phalachan Valley in Himachal, where we are staying with our friends Shalini and Dam, is chilly and rainy this Holi day. It rained a lot over night, and quite …
Walking with the gods
Today we moved higher up the valley, to stay with our friends Shalini and Dam at their beautiful home stay For a While. After the rainy weather of the last …
A changed yet unchanging landscape
We are in Himachal, in the Tirthan Valley, staying with our friends Shefali and Christopher. I consider this place, and their home, as my home from home. It is one …