Ghumakkar Editorial Monthly Digest – October 2013
I am an year older and hopefully wiser when this digest goes for publication. But that is not a significant event in October. A little more scratching and you realise that the month almost starts with...
View ArticleRendezvous with our dear Ram Dhall – Ghumakkar Featured Author Interview,...
My call was received by a mature and responsible voice. His humbleness was shown in his very first greeting and then we began an elaborate talk! As we spoke, my apprehensions and prejudices just faded...
View ArticleGhumakkar Monthly Digest – November 2013
As a travel blogger and in some sense an amaetuer writer on internet, I have often wondered on how we can formalise the authorship process. Anyone can have a blog with any name. How do we authorise a...
View ArticleGhumakkar Featured Author Interview – with Upanshu Singhal
We froze a mid week day 8:30 pm slot for our telephonic conversation. After a tiring day at work, would the person have mood to give an interview? Well, I was really skeptical about it. TO add to my...
View ArticleGhumakkar Monthly Digest – December 2013
Now back to our roster on December. The month definitely belonged to Ajay Sharma who kept driving, almost every single day. If you have not been able to read his road-trip spanning thousands of...
View ArticleGhumakkar Monthly Digest – January 2014
The cold is almost on the way out. Out here, in the National Capital, we witnessed a lot of action, both on and off the road. Suddenly Delhi is abuzz with a new Government, and almost everyone wants to...
View ArticleGhumakkar Monthly Digest – February 2014
In terms of travel, February started with some much-needed driving lessons from Aurojit, as he gets ready to take us to central Europe in his Skoda. The drive is yet to happen and we are all eagerly...
View ArticleGhumakkar Monthly Digest – March 2014
Ghumakkar Guide is something which we have spoken about in the past but we could publish the first only now. The intent is write a under 10 minute read quick guide with all the useful and important...
View ArticleGhumakkar Digest – April 2014
Within them, they took us to entire Kumaon, most of Kashmir, villages of Switzerland, a large part of Rajasthan and finally to snowy Shimla. A respite from the heat that we're folded in with...
View ArticleGhumakkar Digest – May 2014
Summers are here and with them the sweltering, all-melting heat, especially if you are living in the plains in Northern India and the coastal regions. When in school, we at least had the satisfaction...
View ArticleGhumakkar Digest – June 2014
I have talked about my love for winters quite a lot. And it is no secret that I hate summers. But this post isn't about how bad summers are. No, sir! It is in fact about the little blessings of...
View ArticleFeatured Author Interview – With Joyful Jaishree Khamesra
We did see the gangetic Dolphin- our national Aquatic Animal, also called tiger of Chambal, Mugger Croc, Sno-u-ty Gharial, two freshwater Turtles, Indian Hare, Civet cat, Golden Jackal but highlight of...
View ArticleGhumakkar Digest – July 2014
This is an age-old problem human beings are trying to resolve. We are on an unending quest to have it all. But the truth is that we always have to make hard choices, we have to give up things. And...
View ArticleGhumakkar Insight –Let’s wander! But be vigilant too
So if we only drop the ball and do not come forward demanding action for the better future and for future travellers, it is we and our generation next to suffer. If we predispose that nothing will...
View ArticleGhumakkar Digest – September 2014
More than 20 Ghumakkars braved it. Tridev Sir and Silentsoul played the role of Sutradhars and helped us introduce each other. Apart from Sushant who came all the way from Saharanpur, the spirit of...
View ArticleGhumakkar Digest – October and November
True, my friend XYZ's Uncle's Cousin was put on lifelong medication after he got a medical checkup done, but it wasn't the medical checkup that gave him hypertension. He was perhaps living with this...
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