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  1. Weekends 1 to 12

    March 22, 2009 by pranav

    1. Bhadrachalam & Papikondalu Hills
    2. Bombay
    3. Vodarevu & Suryalanka beaches, Chirala, Bapatla & Guntur.
    4. Brahmapur & Gopal-on-Sea, Orissa
    5. Bombay
    6. Bangalore
    7 & 8. Jaipur, Sawai Madhopur, Bikaner, Jaisalmer, Phalodi, Khichan, Jodhpur & Delhi
    9. Hubli
    10. Bombay
    11. Badami
    12. Konaseema houseboat, Narasapur

    So far, luck has been on my side and things have just fallen in place & I could balance health, family, work & social life in my travels.

    I have 40 more weekends to go. Sounds like fun. There will be some inevitable duplicates like Bombay. Some of you are disputing that my frequency to Bombay is kind of unfair. Common, i need to go home on important birthdays, anniversaries, etc.

    Another issue is, how do far off places like Rajasthan & Delhi count as weekend trips? They were longer trips, but the point is I was out of Hyderabad and was travelling with vengeance for those 10 days. They are trips and I cant be bothered with the technical definition of a weekend trip. I will travel on every weekend, how and where arent necessarily exact weekend destinations.

    My bigger concern is that I have already been to so many of the places that are easy weekend getaways from Hyderabad.

    Out of the remaining 40 weekends, I have about 20 places in mind, have already planned the next 8 trips and am open for suggestions and ideas for the rest.

    I’m not likely to post the details about my friends who came along with me to respect their privacy. I do maintain a gMap, travel calendar and a CouchSurfing calendar. In case you feel you deserve to know those details and want me to share them with you, let me know.


  2. Bombay.

    December 2, 2008 by pranav

    VT Station, St. Xavier’s College & Metro, Cafe Mondegar & Leopold’s at Colaba, Taj Mahal at Gateway of India, Oberoi next to the Air India building at Nariman Point, etc. is usually there on the must-see places I would suggest a visitor to Bombay. My Bombay.

    Today, the same landmarks are in the news for the wrong reasons. About 15 months before the recent attack I had blogged about the blasts in Hyderabad and the blasts in Bangalore. The events got replicated again and magnified in their gore but I have almost the same views even today.

    Added pain, added insecurity, added unhappiness and added disappointment. This time an old school friend was taken hostage and I felt first hand the pain of sensing the danger and the anxiousness and the helplessness and then the tearful relief of knowing that somehow the friend managed to escape. It hurts and leaves me numb thinking searching for an answer and a solution that doesn’t seem to exist.

    All the usual mindless activities that happen after a disaster have begun … the email forwards, the petitions, the photographs, the annoying politicians and Bollywood people, the trivia, the conspiracy theory, the official count of the dead, the actual estimates, the welfare amount for the families of the dead, etc. etc.

    Don’t give me any of those. Give me peace.