Off the Beaten Track .....and far from the madding crowd

I wrote this essay five years ago based on my memories of a very significant period of my military life. In 1987 the Indian Pe...

It is here that the beautiful mountains have witnessed the most humiliating military debacle inflicted on modern India; the drive is r...

The abode of the clouds, so aptly named.    Do not go to Meghalaya with a plan for a hectic ‘been there done that’ kind of schedule cramme...

The Indian One Horned Rhino   Kaziranga   National Park  is synonymous with the great Indian one-horned rhinoceros, the only place in ...

Here is the kit packed and ready to carry The stuff I carry in it Here are two pictures of my Personal Pocket Kit, PPK. Most f...

Blue Whistling Thrush ...... .....greeting a new  day An iced caterpillar a juvenile flycatcher contemplates the end of t...

B rig (retd.) Xerxes P Adrianwalla  spends a day in the monsoons driving from Lonavala past the many waterfalls that line ...