A collection of links that I have been reading lately.
Return of the Ganga is a 3-part documentary film that explores the recent ongoing mad chaotic tension between conservation and exploitation of our land, water and people. At the heart of the film is the river Ganga being dammed extensively and dried up. The film explores the options we have to save Ganga from the 600+ [yup that’s the number!] hydro-power projects being built on her.
This is a guest-post from Prasad Np, who writes at Desi Traveler. All photographs are by the author.
While I have never been a very serious trekker, I had my share of treks in Himalayas and also in Panchmadi in Madhya Pradesh. But as time passed I thought what the hell; let me give some competition to Maradona if in nothing else, then in waist size.
Now a days I rarely rough it out and focus on travel with my kids and wife, but when our adventure club organized a hike to KoilKonda fort in Mahbubnagar district, I could not resist and decided to join the same.
We reached Mahbubnagar around 1:30 pm in the afternoon and had a heavy lunch of Chilli Biryani (the amount of chilies must have been equal to the amount or rice, ok I exaggerate, but you get the gist). What a mistake it was, I realized after about an hour when I was halfway in the trek.
Tall poles with fluttering prayer flags are omnipresent across Bhutan. You will see them in front of the houses, at monasteries and dzongs, at clearing in a forest, on either side of the bridges, edge of the villages and high passes. These prayer flags carry the Buddhist mantras in the air as they flutter in the mountain breeze. Here is a cluster of those flags at Chele la pass, overlooking the mountains adjoining Jomolhari.
