| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - Family Travel Blog From India A Photo walk with HWS at Koti Womens College Hyderabad Every single day Hyderabad keeps on surprising me with its jewels spread across the city. A few days ago Chandrasekhar Anna invited us to a photo walk to, Osmania University College for Women or Koti Womens College as it is informally called by Hyderabadis. [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post Koti Womens College- A Nizam Era Jewel Of HyderabadDesi Traveler... |
| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - Family Travel Blog From India18 Meter Tall Buddha Statue in Hussain Sagar Every city and era has its icons, some old some new. Take Delhi - it has Red fort and Qutub Minar from the earlier days and Lotus Temple from the modern days. Similarly we have London with its ancient Palaces like Buckingham Place and Tower Bridge representing the [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post Different Hues of 18 Meter Tall Buddha Statue in Hussain SagarDesi Traveler... |
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| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - Family Travel Blog From IndiaA Trek to Valley of flowers and Hemkund Sahib In this post fellow photographer and blogger Sumana Dey takes us on a trek to photograph the divine Valley of flowers, National Park in Himalayas, Chamoli, Uttarakhand, India. In the process she also visits the holy Hemkund Sahib lake and Gurudwara close to the Valley of [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post A Photographer Treks To Valley Of Flowers & Hemkund SahibDesi Traveler... |
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| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - Family Travel Blog From IndiaPracticing Low Light Photography with Slow Shutter Speed Using Tripod Though I am just a hobby photographer, I enjoy experimenting with my camera and lens. Some time back I wrote a post about Hussain Sagar Tank Bund in Hyderabad, when we went there with Hyderabad Weekend Shoots to take pictures of the 18 Meter High Buddha statue [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post My Experiments in Low Light Photography With Slow Shutter SpeedDesi Traveler... |
| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - Family Travel Blog From India Beach Cricket In Pondicherry I was walking in evening on a beach in Pondicherry, when I saw these boys playing cricket, the unofficial national game of India. This is a common pass time for boys in India, to play cricket on any open space. While watching them I was very happy to see that [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post Beach Cricket in PondicherryDesi Traveler... |
| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - Family Travel Blog From IndiaAncient Shore Temple Mamallapuram Some time back I wrote two posts on Shore Temple Mamallapuram, one was a quiz to identify the ancient temple of Mamallapuram or Mahabalipuram, on the East cost highway outside of Chennai. In both the pictures I showed the top or the Shikhara of the temple with birds playing there at the lofty [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post A Photo Essay On Shore Temple MamallapuramDesi Traveler... |
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| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - Family Travel Blog From India Life as seen on Varanasi Ghats There are a lot of Holy Cities and Temple Towns in India, every where people come to ask for wishes to be granted to make their life better in this. People visit Varanasi for all this and more, thousands of Hindus visit Varanasi or Benaras, or Kashi [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post Varanasi The Spiritual Capital of India- A Photo Essay on Varanasi GhatsDesi Traveler... |
| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - i Travel, i Click, i Blog About The Places i Travel Cycling Vacations In India – A Few Things to Know Are you planning cycling vacations in India? Well I suggest you first read below before you book your tickets for cycling vacations in India so that you are prepared for them and have a pleasant experience. There was a time when India was a [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post Cycling Vacations In India- What you need to Know before booking tickets to IndiaDesi Traveler... |
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| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - i Travel, i Click, i Blog About The Places i TravelWe have bought our small car on a big loan, and it was causing a lot of itching to go somewhere. We agreed to go to pink city Jaipur the capital of rang rangeelo Rajasthan. It was our first trip in the new car and I felt like I owned the world even while being [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post Raj Mandir Jaipur – One Photo From My AlbumDesi Traveler... |
| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - i Travel, i Click, i Blog About The Places i Travel Lamakaan The open inclusive cultural space in Hyderabad A few days ago we talked about Hussain Sagar Tank Bund where Hyderabadis go for evening walk when they don’t want to do anything. But what about Hyderabadis with cultural juices overflowing ? Where do the artistic and the lets change the world types go to [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post Lets Meet At LamakaanDesi Traveler... |
| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - i Travel, i Click, i Blog About The Places i Travel Skywatch Friday- The Famous Pallava Shore Temple In South India Last week in Skywatch post I posted a picture of the top of a famous temple and asked it to be identified for a gift in form of printout of any picture from desi Traveler blog. I was not sure how many people will get the answer [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post Skywatch Friday- Crows Race At The Top of Shore TempleDesi Traveler... |
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| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - i Travel, i Click, i Blog About The Places i TravelA Book Review of Business Sutra-Devdutt Pattanaik Now you may wonder why I am doing a book review of Business Sutra by Devdutt Pattanaik in desi Traveler, a travel blog. Now since desi Traveler loves all things desi and as I have spent my share of life energy chasing Luxmi while being a corner room [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post Business Sutra By Devdutt PattanaikDesi Traveler... |
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| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - i Travel, i Click, i Blog About The Places i TravelEvening Walk For Low Light Photogrpahy at Hussain Sagar Tank Bund Tank Bund on the Banks of Hussain Sagar is the informal city center of Twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad. Every city slowly gets its own hangout place or the city center where the citizens and the tourists and travelers converge to soak the [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post An Evening Walk at Hussain Sagar Tank BundDesi Traveler... |
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| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - i Travel, i Click, i Blog About The Places i Travel Jallianwala Bagh Memorial Amritsar Today is Baisakhi, one of the few festivals in India that follows the solar calender, the other one being Sankranti. Both are in a a way related to change of season and bumper crops. But Baishakhi also has a place in the freedom struggle of India. It was on this [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post Jallianwala Bagh Memorial AmritsarDesi Traveler... |
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| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - i Travel, i Click, i Blog About The Places i Travel This is my first entry for Weekly Photo Challenge with the Theme Change. Change has many meanings as per the zen masters Change is the only constant. So here is my first entry for the Weekly Photo challenge : I am putting here a picture of a male sparrow with a feather in his [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post Weekly Photo Challenge: ChangeDesi Traveler... |
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| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - i Travel, i Click, i Blog About The Places i TravelCan You Guess The Famous Temple in Picture Hi Everybody, I thought of asking a small quiz with this photo today. You need to guess the name of this famous temple in India that has been photographed here. It may be difficult for people not living in India, but for most travelers in India it [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post Guess The Famous Temple In India – Quizz for SkywatchDesi Traveler... |
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| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - i Travel, i Click, i Blog About The Places i TravelRangoli Making From Wiki: Rangoli, also known as kolam, is a folk design art from India. Rangoli are decorative designs made on living room and courtyard floors during Hindu festivals typically consisting of bright colors. They are meant to be sacred welcoming areas for the Hindu deities.The ancient symbols have been passed down through the [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post Making Rangoli in IndiaDesi Traveler... |
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| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - i Travel, i Click, i Blog About The Places i TravelWatching Flamingos At Gandipet Lake in Hyderabad Recently we went to look for Flamingos in Gandipet or Osman Sagar one of the bigger lakes among the lakes encircling Hyderabad, some of these lakes are natural and others were specially made or enlarged during the reign of the Nizams to ensure water security. Over period lakes like [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post Watching Flamingos In Gandipet Lake HyderabadDesi Traveler... |
| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - i Travel, i Click, i Blog About The Places i TravelRolls Royce The Symbol Of Wealth A Rolls Royce is the symbol of wealth, wealthy folks around the world love to flaunt their Rolls Royce. Religious gurus in India, dictators in Africa and South America, Sheikh’s in Middle East and Royalty in Europe all love to move around in Rolls Royce’s. So when I saw [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post The Rolls Royce in Old Hyderabaddesi Traveler... |
| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - i Travel, i Click, i Blog About The Places i TravelGHAC- Volunteers make the difference Although Hyderabad is home to some of the top names in Indian sports like Mohammad Azharuddin,Sania Mirza, P. Gopichand, Saina Nehwal, the city is still known for its Nizami culture and laid back attitude. The idea of action for a typical Hyderabadi is to go and climb the stairs of [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post A Movement Called GHACDesi Traveler... |
| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - i Travel, i Click, i Blog About The Places i TravelBird Watching with BSAP or Birdwatchers’ Society of Andhra Pradesh- A Visit to ICRISAT I have been to ICRISAT last year for bird watching with GHAC, but this year I have not been able to go there till I came to know of BSAP or Birdwatchers’ Society of Andhra Pradesh, a dedicated society of bird lovers, [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post Bird Watching with BSAP at ICRISATDesi Traveler... |
| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - i Travel, i Click, i Blog About The Places i TravelA Visit To Ethipothala Waterfalls near Nagarjuna Sagar OK the Doordarshan generations promise me you will not think about the Liril girl while reading this post on Ethipothala Waterfalls near Nagarjuna Sagar Dam, and non Doordarshan generations please do not Google it. Damn just you won’t listen to me. Well I can’t blame you for [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post A Visit To Ethipothala Waterfalls near Nagarjuna SagarDesi Traveler... |
| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - i Travel, i Click, i Blog About The Places i Travel A City Rises Again-Ruins of Bidar Fort A picture of Bidar Fort is my entry for Skywatch Friday. This picture was taken during visit to the Bidar Fort about 100 KM from Hyderabad. The fort was capital of the empire in Deccan before Golconda gained prominence. Here you see a tourist standing in an [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post A City Rises Again-Ruins of Bidar FortDesi Traveler... |
| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - i Travel, i Click, i Blog About The Places i TravelReaching Koil Konda Fort by Bus from Hyderabad to Mahbubnagar Given a choice my first preference to go anywhere is take an overnight train, sleep in the train and arrive at destination next day. If the journey is too long, then I take one of the low cost airlines, only on very few occasions I [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post A Journey By Bus From Hyderabad To MahbubnagarDesi Traveler... |
| Desi TravelerDesi Traveler - i Travel, i Click, i Blog About The Places i Travel A Special Post on Women’s day about 4 Women who travel and lead The Times They Are a-Changin’ sang Bob Dylan in 60s and trust me the times have not stopped changing since. The challenge is we as a society are not willing to accept that the patriarchal rules formed many moons ago unilaterally [Continue Reading By Clicking Here...]The post 4 Women Who Travel and LeadDesi Traveler... |
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