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We are back from Andaman and here is one of the most common sites you will see island hopping in the archipelago. A distant Island making beautiful sunsets even more beautiful. Did I hear you go Awww... First post about Andamans is coming soon...

Travel has been keeping me busy along with all the other projects I have taken up. I have had almost no creative juice left after writing huge amounts of content for my other blog and rewriting the Work Travel Live book.Well I have just started rewriting the book. I am taking a break for 10 days and going travelling. I know I should probably take you along and post updates but nah! that's a bit too much for where I am at these days. We are not sure if we are taking the laptop even.

So in purely shameless fashion I am leaving you with these images from awesome people over at Unsplash and a great blog to read while I saunter around the white sandy beaches of Andamans.

The blog is The Art of Non Conformity. In case you have not read it head over and read this awesome blog. Ans all my dreamer followers go ahead and have a look at Mixergy. Even if you do not dream of becoming an entrepreneur it will light a fire.

We are back on 7th October so see you around.


An now the Images

This was taken at Sundarbans though the monkey looks calm it is only because it is busy with food. They are perhaps the animals we have met most apart from humans. The most surprising meeting was at the Keola Deo National Park where a group of monkey roamed around free and were scared of us on our rickshaw.
The reason for monkeys acting docile is that visitors are not allowed to hand them any food or other article. If only people would heed this advice everywhere.
This might not seem a fitting inspiration for many but remember travel is not about isolation, nature and its various members should be a part of your travels too.
Also I wanted to say... don't hand out food to animals in wild you are not doing much good that way.

PS: We got our prizes for winnign the GoUNESCO challenge and they are epic more about that in the next post.

I know I know I have been late this time. We are visiting family and you can get busy with all the relations around.
Travel is not specific to anyone there is something for everyone somewhere. Choose your souvenir and enjoy your travels.

Why travel is a question many have. It is infinitely comfortable to stay at home and not go through the ups and downs travel brings. I have always had a very simple answer to it.

Travel because You Deserve it.

Hungary made a new law. They must be doing it every other day but this one is really special. It bars anyone from clicking a stranger without asking for permission. As The Guardian puts it

From 15 March anyone taking photographs in Hungary is technically breaking the law if someone wanders into shot, under a new civil code that outlaws taking pictures without the permission of everyone in the photograph. According to the justice ministry, people taking pictures should look out for those who are are aware they are about to be photographed and are not waving in protest, nor trying to hide or run out of shot.

This got me thinking what if this had been a law everywhere ever since? We would never have had the image of a sailor kissing a nurse. The spontaneous rush of emotions would have looked stage and I doubt anyone of them would have even replied to the photographer before their kiss was over.
Thinking a bit about it I decided to make today's stories from the road post about what if this rule was in place last year in India.

Exhibit 1

Our Kolkata Walk

We had a lot of time on our hands when we got off in Kolkata. We had arrived a day earlier giving Gaya a miss (I am still sad about that). Trying to save some money we decided to walk. It is no doubt the best way to see a place-walking about early morning. We came across a lot of things and a lot of people some we clicked others we could not. Here are some of the people we did not ask permission from, bad of us I guess but in most cases it would have been rude.

Did not feel like waking this guy up


This man was busy reading his papers-rude to disturb


This one was lost in his thoughts

This elderly man knew I was clicking the cart behind him and he walked in to cross the road. (semi-permission I guess)

Was this the best thing to do. It felt right when we clicked these pictures. These do tell the story for us. These tell our readers how people spend their mornings in Kolkata. More importantly we did ask permission before we clicked some pictures like this smiling taxi driver.

Exhibit 2

Pattadakal Trip

This trip was one of our early trips and I am sue you have read about the trip. We clicked a few photographs and you bet people were in there.

These Females are a big part of our journey. They were cramped with us in the tempo which would take us back to Badami. Did I ask? Nope, but I tried o take avoid their faces though.

These men were sitting outside a Desi daaru ki dukaan. It was my first time to see local liquor on display. I wan not going to miss it. (Apologies for blurred photograph)


And I could not help but be amazed by all the piercings that this lady had. So I clicked. (Again apologies for blurred photograph)


Hopefully this lady did not have any issues.


I hope you understand the risks I have taken in the past year. Had I been in Hungary this year I might have been sued!

What is your take on the law and what is the pic you would have missed had you not clicked it?

Many look around themselves to find meaning of life. Travel brings you face to face with yourself. It is when you face yourself that you find the real meaning.

It is then that you find you peace.