Prologue, sort of. This day, last year, I was in Odisha. In fact, I spent most of the summer months of 2016 in Odisha, travelling solo across the state, indulging…
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Baisakhi is to Talwandi Sabo what Hola Mohalla is to Anandpur Sahib. During the 2-day Baisakhi fair, the dusty little town of Talwandi Sabo, around…
The agenda of the day was to trace great revolutionary Sukhdev Thapar’s legacy in the old and congested Chaura Bazaar area in Ludhiana. It’s a shame that despite all these…
‘Madam ji, which newspaper are you from?’ the voice that belonged to this query seemed just inches away from my left ear. I turned around, ever-so-slightly irked at having been disturbed.…
The Kila Raipur Sports Festival – the annual four-day-long sports jamboree held in Kila Raipur on the outskirts of Ludhiana city– is a crazy celebration of not just sportsman spirit…
The stories about the historical little town of Fatehgarh Sahib are super fascinating, to say the least. The two posts I wrote about about this place last month got great…
In my last post I had written about the goosebumps inducing legendary story of Diwan Todar Mal of Sirhind who had defied Mughal diktat and had arranged for the cremation of the young martyred…
Last week I got the opportunity to travel to Sirhind (pronounced Sarhind), a historically significant small town in the Fatehgarh Sahib district of Punjab. This ancient town, also known as Fatehgarh…
Spotted this father-son duo at the Rural Olympics that is on at the Kila Raipur village, in Ludhiana district of Punjab. Everything about this pair is awe-inspiring – their body…
The tomb of Ustad Mohammad Momin, also known as Ustad Mohammed Hosseini alias Hafizak, a musician in the service of Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, one of the Navratnas at Emperor Akbar’s court.The monument…