Ant R

It has been a while since I have written about my gustatory adventures, partly because I feel guilty to be pigging out all alone on most of my trips. Alone, sometimes by default, at other times by choice. It is better to have no company at all than have the non-adventurous kinds looking for fish-rice in all terrains. [...]

If anyone remembers my goa travelogue last year (in which I wore a top as a skirt or something), the four of us decided to do it again this time. The pre-planning took away a lot of effort and time and in the end we were left with no tickets for Goa. We ended up doing a road [...]

It is no news that my work takes me traveling to weird locales. This time around I was disposed off to some remote forest town in Orissa. I was informed to pack my bags for a week and leave in less than 24 hrs so I hardly had time to prepare myself for this new place. [...]

Here are some bytes from my latest office trip to North Bengal. 

We took an overnight train this time, it had been a while since I had taken 
the train so was reasonably excited to be on the Darjeeling Mail. Things that caught my attention on the onward train:

Notably fair share of colourful young crowd, mostly students I presumed [...]

I am presently touring Orissa for work. There were a couple of workshops to be held all around the state and each one of us was assigned one district level event. I was earlier assigned a place called Angul, a terribly hot place (50 degrees, i googled) that I desperately wanted to opt out of. Somehow someone [...]

I do not know about others but I was not too keen on returning. Nevertheless, we had to so we started off for the ‘2.5 hours’ journey. Chris insisted we say that to motivate him. Plus he had to drive on to Shillong too the same day, after dropping us off at Guwahati. We skipped breakfast and [...]

I finally managed to wake up the next morning, and oh boy did I ‘wake up’. As a friend of mine would have put it, ’fresh as a daisy’, yeah yeah, petals all around and my face in the centre, swaying from side to side, that would be me. We had driven through the wilderness in [...]

My work had me traveling again this week, this time to Arunachal. For some reason I was not able to sleep the night before I took my early morning flight this time. It was perhaps an outfall of a sudden job interview I had attended the day before. I had not really tried much for [...]

Alright so rediffiland exists no more, noone receives my notifications anymore, ilander pals are only connected through telepathy and you get read only if one of your old faithful readers decides to stumble upon your blog that has been presumed dead by the rest of your readers. I decide to write anyways. Type that is. [...]

It was on the itinerary for some time now. A trip to Imphal with my friends anu, wong and pat to attend the wedding of our friends, rabi and glo. And off we were for a week. The flight stopped over at Agartala and since flight tickets to this region are cheaper than train, we [...]