Archive for December, 2008

Climate change exhibition

Centre for Media Studies, as part of their travelling film festival in 2008, commissioned an exhibition on climate change. The exhibition along with the festival will be travelling to 8 cities across India in this order: Leh, Agartala, Coimbatore, Bhopal, Ranchi, Pune, Lucknow and Hyderabad.

Piracy

Got a call from my dad the other day. And the normal routinely conversation began. I updated him on new events or activities in the last 24 hours, as we have had the same discussion the previous day! Parents! They just cant refrain from calling you up in the expectation that maybe some magical turn [...]

Cheat codes

How many times have you wished that you had a double, who would be at work chasing a deadline while you were partying, a double who could stand-in for you pretending you were putting in overtime hours to your girlfriend, when in fact you were out chasing a newer-prettier thing?

Control room

“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” — Susan Heller
So, THAT is what I have been doing wrong!
Taking off from i-sol’s earlier post about planning before a holiday (he himself has confessed that I am one of the subjects [...]

What’s the date?

The above 2 dates are not separated by 16 days but infact the real count is 77. Moreover, not only are they not in the same month, they actually have an entire October in between. But whats common is that nowadays they are always mentioned in the same breath.
Not taking away the severity of the [...]

The intrepid traveler and the Art of War

“The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the battle is fought,” said Sun Tzu in Art of War.
In my earlier post, I had written about how the intrepid traveler prepares for each trip like a general for a war. I am willing to lay my neck on the line [...]

The intrepid traveler

There is this old chestnut about George Mallory. When someone asked him why he wanted to climb  Mt Everest, he replied, “Because it is there.”
Mallory was the forerunner of the intrepid traveler or Homo Intrepidus Traveleris. Resolute, determined to reach the destination by hook or crook or hitch hiking, she prepares for every trip like [...]

List of provisions

List of provisions stacked for the trip to Tsomo-riri (3 days/ taxi/ 4 people + 1 driver)
Trip dates: 27, 28, 29 June 2007
The bill dated 26th of June 2007 was supposed to feed 5 people for 3 days. Of those 5 people, 4 brains were put into preparing this list. And the best of our [...]