Musings on forests 🌳🌲 and the tumult of countless natural processes brewing beneath their static facade… meadows at Devsu, Uttarakhand 🇮🇳…
Forests in their fecund reveries…
Category: Mountains
Georgia and a pore on microcosms…
Travelogue of a week long trip to Georgia 🇬🇪, covering the north and northeastern parts of the Caucasian country 🏔️…
Fire and ice – a pore on twilight…
Fire and ice atop stoic summits is an intriguing interplay, for the fire doesn’t burn and the ice tends to warm… the light is forever in flux while the ice is a statis in perpetuity… twixt the two, the notions of time stand flummoxed… dawn and dusk, both extremities bestowed with a benevolent sun, one …
Bali Pass – saunter up and tumble down…
Bali Pass trek in Uttarakhand 🇮🇳 is high-altitude Himalayan trail from Sankri village to Janki Chatti, crossing the 4,900 metre Bali Pass 🏔️
Mountains and distant colours…
Mountains are rocks anyway, made by vomiting volcanoes or tectonic tantrums… in their folds, the animate tries to find its inanimate roots…
Rolling hills…
One always yearns for rolling hills, perhaps it is that seeming infinite or the symmetry.. musing on mountains, hiking in the #Himalaya 🏔️
Flux down the mountain…
Amidst high mountains, flowing water’s perpetual motion contrasts with nature’s slow rhythms, offering solace in its playful innocence… hiking in the Himalaya 🏔️
Kang Yatse 1 – Icy domes and dusty roads
There’s stasis on the face of it as one looks at the panorama from a mountaintop on a clear morning… all the snow-covered peaks and glaciers spewing out of their cold slopes brooding deep till the sun warms them up into frothing rivers down below… somewhere between the transition of ice into water, the elements …
Ghats in their monsoon lush…
Ghats are one of those landscapes that overwhelm the senses, the lush tropical mountains steeped in flora and fauna, many of whom have these regions as their only domicile, defying the quintessential interconnectedness of a world forever in flux, espousing exclusivity instead… whether thrashing through the forests, treading the criss-cross trails amidst tea gardens or …
Nelong and mountains glum…
Nelong valley, like many of its militarized brethren, lies glum… twixt blasts of dynamite scraping roads out of brittle rocks and some rounds fired hither and thither, there’s an eerie silence, uncharacteristic of mountains that can conjure music out of almost everything, animate or inanimate… but these are the ways modern societies define assertiveness and …