NH 45 is a famous National Highway in Tamil Nadu that begins in Chennai and ends at Kumuli in Kerala. It is also called the GST (Grand South...

In the last three and a half years since my visit to Kodaikanal, things weren't that different, but there were changes that I couldn'...

A colorful part of the residential colony of Kodaikanal .  Kodaikanal is a 175 years old town established by the British as a refuge from th...

After nearly three and a half years of "gap," or my first long vacation post-COVID, happened suddenly last week. We went to our cu...

During a recent trip to Auroville, near Pondicherry, I captured some beautiful sky shots of the setting sun as we drove to the Panchamukha A...

(At the petrol station) The first thing we did when we arrived in Pondicherry was fill up our car's diesel tank because everyone knows ...

A colorful row of buildings on the road to Auroville. Nephew Kavin's colorful toy, a battery-operated unicorn, came as his birthday gift.

We went to Pondicherry two weekends ago, and it was an unplanned trip because my brother abruptly called from the gym at 9.30 pm on Friday (...

  Café Coffee Day (CCD) is an Indian multinational coffeehouse brand headquartered in Bengaluru. And this coffee shop and its sign were capt...

Tea and rain are often combined to create an ideal time for a tea break!  Tea has become inevitable in our daily lives, and many of us have ...

 Save trees to save ourselves!  On the road to Kodaikanal, the forest department painted a mural promoting environmental awareness.  A sign ...

Know what's the trend in South Indian social media right now? It's Ponniyin Selvan. In short, PS-1.  When I first saw the PS-1 comme...

The sign of a nurse was captured in front of a medical shop (in a village called Markayankottai in the Theni district of Tamil Nadu) and the...

The ECR is a scenic coastal road in Chennai that leads to Puducherry, and I generally traveled on it up to Mamallapuram, my ancestor's h...

Several unidentified birds chirp,  Woke me up earlier than usual.  The natural alarm of the woods pleased the ears. I was still drowsy and p...

Tea County, I believe, does not require a description because anyone can guess it's a tea/coffee shop, and if someone wanted to know any...

When we first traveled to Kodaikanal in 1999, we had our dinner at this restaurant after arriving at and checking into a guesthouse managed...

The stone slab outside the Koyambedu Bus Stand in Chennai, one of the largest bus stations in Asia, commemorates the day the foundation for ...