Archive for May, 2011

Day 1: Reached Srinagar via Delhi. Transport to Houseboat. One Shikara ride. Dinner was a greedy assembly of Kashmiri dishes that were a tad raw for our tastes. Day 2: Trip to Sonamarg. Lunch and then sledging. Reached a view point around 1-1.5 kms from the start and saw the Thajiwas glacier from there. Then [...]


Khedar Deluxe – II Old memories seldom rest – not when you have rekindled them after years of careful suppression. I let my hand stay on her cheek a moment longer and then withdrew my hand back to my own side. She had stopped running her fingers over the grass-shoots. A silence prevailed that was [...]


Khedar Deluxe – I She restarted her talk on Chinar trees when I realized, not for the first time, that I did not deserve her. I had stopped asking her the question of “why me” a while back, when not for the first time, she put on her annoyed face and spoke, not unlike a mother’s [...]



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