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Day 5: Urgeling Monastery and Manjushree Vidyapith

Print This Post December 9, 2020 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

The three markets in Tawang are closed on three different days—Old Market on Tuesday, Nehru Market on Wednesday, and New Market on Thursday. Most eateries remain open all throughout the week—especially those serving breakfast. Most of these breakfast joints either serve puri or paratha for breakfast and are geared towards the working class. Aesthetically, they … [Read more…]

Posted in: Travel Tagged: North-East trip '20, Tawang

Day 3–4: Tawang

Print This Post December 8, 2020 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

Journey from Tezpur to Tawang During this pandemic, the authorities are not allowing more than five passengers in a shared Sumo. However, none of the operators care about that rule in spite of charging nearly double the usual price for a trip. One of the reasons is that they are not able to get enough … [Read more…]

Posted in: Travel Tagged: Bhalukpong, North-East trip '20, Tawang, Tezpur

Day 2: Exploring Tezpur

Print This Post December 6, 2020 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

Tezpur (and its district Sonitpur) is a place known for its association to the myth of Banasura. In its modern avatar, Tezpur is what I would call a functional administrative town. Located on the northern banks of Brahmaputra, it is a nice, intimate town that has preserved some of the ancient sites while allowing a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Travel Tagged: North-East trip '20, Tezpur

Day 1: Plans of North-East and a long travel

Print This Post December 5, 2020 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

Planning a trip amidst COVID-19 COVID-19 and its aftermath posed one of the biggest problems in planning a trip this year. Like many of my colleagues and fellow servicemen, I had accumulated a lot of leaves that I had to consume within this calendar year lest they get lapsed. Earlier I had contemplated a couple … [Read more…]

Posted in: Travel Tagged: Guwahati, North-East trip '20, Tezpur

Persona: Standalone sub-site using WordPress backend

Print This Post July 9, 2020 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

The genesis of this project came from my desire to publish my writings separately. I wanted it to be detached from the blog with its own look and feel but I did not want to have a separate content management system. I have been using WordPress for quite some time and I am familiar with … [Read more…]

Posted in: Coding Tagged: persona, php, wordpress

A week without YouTube

Print This Post May 29, 2020 by Sauvik Biswas 2 Comments

Two weeks ago I started an experiment. I decided that I will not watch YouTube for an entire week. Instead, whenever I have the urge, I will jot the trigger of the urge in my diary. Here are the reasons why I had wanted to open YouTube— Many a times I found myself humming a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Productivity Tagged: entertainment, YouTube

Tour De Self: To Mettur Dam and Back

Print This Post November 6, 2019 by Sauvik Biswas 3 Comments

D1.1 A rocky start Bangalore-Hosur I started from Mahadevpura at 7:30 am on the 30th. I had already packed all my stuff the night before—including a set of clothes for sleeping in—in a small five litre bag and somehow strapped it to the handlebar of my bicycle. I called up Saurabh Mittal (henceforth referred to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Biking / Cycling Tagged: Anchetty, Anekal, Dharmapuri, Dinkanikottai, Hogenakkal, Hosur, Krishnagiri, Mettur, Pannavadi

Day 14–16: Kaza and exit

Print This Post August 11, 2019 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

My roommates in the dorm at Komic were Sunil from Ahmedabad and Pamposh from Punjab. The former was on a spiritual journey—literally and metaphorically. He was on his first backpacking trip. The latter was a seasoned mountaineer. They were headed back to Kaza on a rented Enfield. I hiked back to Hikkim and took the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Travel Tagged: Delhi, Himachal trip '19, Kaza, Manali

Day 12–13: Langza, Hikkim, Komic

Print This Post August 8, 2019 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

I bid goodbye to the Bengali group and headed down the fields to Chicham bypass road to catch the 8:30 am bus to Kaza. The road through Kibber was being re-laid and there was no way that a bus could go through. I needed to get back to Kaza. I needed cash. I barely had … [Read more…]

Posted in: Travel Tagged: Hikkim, Himachal trip '19, Kaza, Komic, Langza

Day 10–11: Kibber and Key

Print This Post August 6, 2019 by Sauvik Biswas Leave a Comment

Jonas—after his ten-day stint at Tabo—finally decided to leave for Kaza. I was also headed that way. Yesterdy, we took the 9:30 am bus to Kaza. He had kept his big bag at Lhasa homestay in Kaza. Although his bag was intact, his speaker was missing. He suspected a worker who had already left for … [Read more…]

Posted in: Travel Tagged: Gitte, Himachal trip '19, Kaza, Key, Kibber
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