Is safer better for women?
I have been writing on women’s rights for a long time, and lately the flood of increasing incidents of physical and sexual threat to women are so overwhelming, that is […]
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Adventure
On Tarun Sehrawat’s death
It had rung fifty kinds of alarms in my head when I first read the story without even knowing what would follow that Tarun Sehrawat drank what was clearly bad
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Celebrating Myself
I fall in love at the drop of a hat I love the world and I love knowing that I am too intense to be pretty A whiff of the
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A Life in Clothes – Part 3 : The World of Men
This is the third of a five part series. Earlier parts are A Life in Clothes – Part 1 : Childhood and A Life in Clothes – Part 2 :
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I love their India
What is up with India? I don’t recognize the country we are turning into. Not any single thing, just many things. Seriously, in Mumbai – the economic freaking capital of
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Horses, rain and memorable times
This is from a time when I was a horse woman in the Himalaya. With 27 horses to feed, money was always short and life was tough. We hadn’t achieved
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The wanderer's mind
Vidyut Kale comes back to Mumbai after 7 years of living in remote mountains as a nomadic horsewoman and finds herself homesick for the mountains….
I have been a professional outbound person for over 12 years now and it is one of the most satisfying professions I could be in. I have worked hard and often on high altitude treks, with horses on riding trails, cooking, guiding, translating, climbing, organising and in general wishing that a day could have 48 hours. I have been frustrated, tired, happy and every other emotion there is, but I have yet to feel like leaving the outdoors as and find work elsewhere.
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Chance booking as an Instructor in Adventure Camps in Manali
I first went to Manali as an adult in 1998. Vidyadhar Joshi, or as he is informally known as Kaka had started a new outdoor adventure company called The Outdoor
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Coping with grief
Yesterday, an unknown, aged housewife in one of the many buildings in Mumbai died. Virtually unknown to many, and the love of a devastated few, this was the typical loving