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Menchukha: How beautiful this valley is..
“Where the Clouds follow a routeHigh across the barren hills..” This is how I would describe Mechuka (also spelled Menchukha), a small valley township nestled in the Shi-Yomi District of Arunachal Pradesh. Falling in love with Arunachal is easy. But that affection deepens into something far more intense as you journey towards this enchanting valley…
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II A 24 hours Corporate Adventure: SBI Life Insurance Co. Ltd. II
Discovering Human Potential Beyond Corporate Walls I had the opportunity to design and execute an offsite meet for SBI Life Insurance. Though I was not part of the corporate world for a very long time, I did spend enough years there to understand what meetings and conferences usually mean to employees. During my corporate days,…
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|| ROOPKUND TREK ||
||13th May – 18th May 2018 || The Mythology A Kund is a natural lake or a reservoir of rainwater high in the mountains. According to mythology, Goddess Durga killed the demon Mahishasura near Bedni Kund, another sacred lake close to Bedni Bugyal, where folklore says the four holy Vedas were once written. After the…
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II Dibang Valley: Athu-Popu trek on Indo China border made us stronger II
Athu Popu: the belief The day was 9th August, 2014, clocked at 10:55 AM. Sky was clear; the hills looked majestic with the green pine grooves and white clouds on its lap. We started our journey on foot from Maliney, the last motor-able vollage in Upper Dibang Valley district of Arunachal Pradesh, about 200 km…
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II Trek to Dzukou Valley: Nagaland II
Dzukou Valley “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach….” Elizabeth Barrett Browning.” Probably I am blessed with the unplanned and unexpected ones and so things happen to be more adventurous to me. I get to learn those lessons that I…
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II Far Away II
Thoughts come up in many ways and forms when we connect ourselves with a place full of Nature’s Bliss, may be a mountain, a river, a deep jungle, a paddy field or a night spent alone under the sky of a full moon or stars… This was 2016-17, when I spent almost a year alone…
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II The Tracks II
Last night I dreamtThe tracks of the groundLying down with the suppressed emotionsIn the core of their souls. I came up with myShivery steps and whispered‘Do you need my run?’They kissed at my toesTears came out from their eyesI made a smile for themAnd set myself for the runThey want. I ran, across the almostSuffocated…
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II GLOW LAKE: Arunachal Pradesh II
GLOW LAKE: GOD HAD A DIFFERENT PLAN FOR US Adventure is always a full of uncertainty, you plan one and execute the other, you destine for one and land on the other, and you prepare for something and face the opposite. We hardly found what we presume. The most frustrating cause becomes the very cause…
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|| The Sea, Ship and the City: Istanbul ||
IstanbulThe beautiful city in Turkey. There are a lot to share about this pleasant and alluring City; from its past Sultans to present day generation on a traveler’s note. The Turkish are liberal in lifestyle, contrary to the common perception of a Muslim country where only 5% of the total population is constituted by Jews,…
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II Deban to Vijoynagar, in betwen somewhere I Arunachal Pradesh II
I am thinking whether I should write about it or not.. It was the trek that I desperately wished to do. But could not made it. Reasons were many, like the weather, sociopolitical unrest of the region, limited days left with us, porters disagreement and so on. Vijoynagar, a bordering village with Myanmar in Arunachal Pradesh,…