The Chausath Yogini Cult – celebrating the Feminine
Chausath Yogini cult - an obscure, forgotten cult in ancient India that celebrates the feminine, its philosophy, persecution and fall
Crete – Where beauty walks hand in hand with the beast
Crete and the Minotaur - Beauty & the Beast, Legends & History - A Beyonder look Crete! The name sounds nice and exotic… And it is… 150 miles long and 30 miles wide, this isolated land mass floats in between the Libyan and Aegean Seas with 15 mountain ranges guarding it. Metaphorically speaking, this is a land...
Pythagorean Cup – The Cup that cheers AND controls greed
The Pythagorean Cup is a unique Greek wine cup, designed by the famous Pythagoras, that cheers and controls greed at the same time - Beyonder Ideal for followers of Lord Bacchus... A wine cup that drains out its contents on the lap of the greedy drinker who fills it beyond a certain level... Designed by Pythagoras... You...
The Beatles Effect
The Beatles and Abbey Road - Legend, lore and history The Beatles' iconic album Abbey Road has a song called Golden Slumbers. It goes: Golden slumbers fill your eyes Smiles await you when you rise Have you heard it yet? If you haven’t, here’s the link – hear it, you will love it. Golden Slumbers . And if...
Napalm Girl, the Vietnam war and her life story
Napalm Girl, the Vietnam war and the little-known story of her life after the War. Vietnam, officially known as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the innermost country on the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula. Vietnam is a very green and beautiful country but was subject to many wars and brutality. These wars also took a great...
Saint Petersburg & Chyzhik-Pyzhik, where have you been?
On the third day of my stay in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg, I was walking down the embankment of the Fontanka river late at night after a heavy meal and a few too many glasses of vodka. The chilly October weather only excited me more to stay out late. Ah! The city did...
Atlantic Road – Norway’s Serpentine Road
You know if a road is a different kind of long drive if James Bond zooms past on it. Gear up for some romance between the sea and the road! We are talking about the Atlantic Road, which is a part of Norwegian national road 64. Not just a road connecting islands, it is about the...
Sarajevo and its “Roses” – A Rose by any other name…
Sarajevo
My stay in Sarajevo was not only a memorable one but also quite an exquisite one. Never before had I visited a city known as a war memorial. The beautiful city of Sarajevo is the capital of Bosnia. It stands on the Miljacka river and is surrounded by the breath-taking Dinaric alps. It's not the...
What colour do you want?
I am reminded of a game I have played as a kid, a game with colours. Tipi Tipi Tap, what colour you want? The person says, I want red and everyone would run helter-skelter to find that colour, in the garden, in their clothes, the wall paint or anything that came close to that colour. As...
Flamsbana – Norway’s Mountain Railway
As Indians, all of us have our share of stories when it comes to train journeys. Call it the DDLJ effect or the Mere Sapno Ki Rani memories, trains have always held a magical place in our hearts. The mountain trains like the Himalayan Queen of Shimla or the Toy train of Darjeeling or Ooty...