Jaipur is one of the most colorful cities you would explore in India. A presumption about Jaipur is that it is all about a royal lifestyle and you would get to feel it on the streets. While that may be true at times, it is not the case always.
I had the chance of visiting the city for a friend’s wedding and I wanted to explore the city apart from the royal life. So I decided to look into people, and life on the street. Here are some of my observations.
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Fish have been around for 500 million years. Fish are cold-blooded, which means their internal body temperature changes as the surrounding temperature changes. All fish have a backbone and there are primarily three classes of fish namely, the jawless, the cartilaginous, and the bony. There are about 20,000 different species of bony fish alive today.
Any visit to the fish market is an interesting experience every time. The hustle-bustle of the people is always chaotic. What’s peculiar of every fish market is the …
I love to conduct workshops and have been fortunate to conduct that across the country at different colleges. Over the past few months, I have roamed across India. From Karnataka to Kerela to Tamil Nadu to Goa and now onto Gujarat. I love to travel and am glad that I get to do this for the thing I am most passionate about.
The hit so far has been the ‘Light Painting Workshop’ and I am really glad that the participants like it. Their feedback after the workshops has been very positive …
I have always been excited about visiting a college where my friends studied. So far all the colleges I have conducted my workshops, have been places where a person I know, (mostly from my friends) have studied. NIT Surathkal was no different. I was pretty excited about this one.
After taking the Volvo to Surathkal, I landed one early morning in front of the gates of the college. The college campus is divided into two parts by the National Highway # 17. On one side is the main building, the auditoriums, …
Royal Enfield was the brand of the Enfield Cycle Company, a British engineering company. Notable for producing motorcycles, it also produced bicycles, lawnmowers, stationary engines, and even rifle parts for the Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield Lock. This legacy of weapons manufacture is reflected in the logo, a cannon, and their motto “Made like a gun, goes like a bullet”. It also enabled the use of the brand name Royal Enfield from 1890. In 1955 Enfield of India started assembling Bullet motorcycles under licence from UK components, and by …
New York has to be one of the most interesting cities that I have visited so far. It has a character in itself. I had heard a lot about the city and had been wanting to visit it since a long time. In the summer of 2008, I had a chance to visit it during the Independence Day weekend.
The view from atop the Empire State Building is breathtaking. With cars the size of ants, and the concrete jungle below, you begin to get a sense of flying. The Hudson river …