Kapil’s Korner

If you live in one of the major cities of India, you’ll know that most office-goers have a tough time commuting between office and home. Either you get squeezed in public transport or the pain of driving through the traffic wants you to leave the car home and hop into a cab. But here is [...]

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Let’s be honest, if it wasn’t for the Photo Marathon then I would have just spent away another Sunday sleeping, eating and reading. But this Sunday was rather interesting and you will see that we attempted a lot of firsts.

Mumbai is a funny city, in the place where they say people are so much in [...]

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Nitika and I spent the weekend at Matheran. I have put up a review at Mouthshut.com to share my two cents on this place. Meanwhile I am sharing some photos I got back from there.

An interesting branch at Echo point. If you look carefully you will see it shaped like a horse’s head.

This is Hotel [...]

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The last few days I have been using the taxis quite extensively. Although they are more comfortable than a bus I think they provide you with a totally different kind of experience. After the bus drivers if there is somebody who can be called the king of the roads it surely is the Taxi Driver. [...]

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Yes, that’s how crazy the new year celebrations were. Well, we almost got into a big tussle with some locals in Lonavala - but in typical Indian style the accused walked away scot free and we had to go back to our homes satisfied with just an apology. Otherwise the rest of the trip was [...]

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This is where he was born, this is where he performed his daring tasks and this is where people have temples dedicated to him on every street. Lord Krishna is in every inch of the space surrounding Mathura. Be it Vrindavan or Barsana or Giriraj.
The place is like just any other religious center. The streets [...]

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I will be disconnected from cyberspace till Saturday. So there will be no posting, comment approvals or replies till I get back home. I am off to Vrindavan for a short religious trip with wifey and in-laws.
More on the trip once I am back.

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Yes, I have been around. For those unaware I got married earlier in the week. Since then it’s been one crazy travelling - I spent a few days visiting some religious places in India and soon after I departed for New Zealand where I am spending my honeymoon.
New Zealand is a beautiful country and we [...]

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I clicked this photo on my recent trip to Dubai. I am kind of proud to have got a great shot of the sunset. I am not sure if it’s easy to capture such shots and so this makes me feel nice to have got one. I was hoping to get some more but the [...]

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Recently work took me to Calcutta. Now no offense to anyone living there but mentally I have always had this particular image of the city being very poor and under-developed in some way. Maybe it’s always the images which I have seen of Kolkatta in press, movies etc. A few years back when someone visited [...]

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