Usha's Odyssey

I had heard about visit to Little Rann of Kutch from a friend.  He gave me contact number and I decided to go there for 3 days.  It is not far from Ahmedabad. Once when travelling in northern Gujarat I met a group of school children - when I asked they told me that they were from Zinzuwada. And that name remained with me. Surprisingly when we went, I found Zinzuwada was just adjoining this Ran. We went to this place with friends for 3 nights. We had to make reservation throug

Once my husband who is a Cardiologist was invited to give a lecture at Bijapur Medical college. To get there we went by train to Sholapur. On reaching we spent sometime in the market. Than we took a taxi to drive to Bijapur.  This memory evoked my mind to think of all that we saw in Bijapur and places we visited from there onwards. Bijapur is in northern  Karnataka, on the Deccan plateau. His lecture was held at a Medical college on the out skirts of the town. Next day we wen

Most people go to Bhutan by Air flying from New Delhi to Paro. But in our case we flew to Bagdodra via Calcutta. We had decided to go by road, a long journey but we travelled by a very comfortable SUV and were very happy. In those days Mobile phones perhaps were not there. So we made a booking by a phone with a travel agent recommended by a friend. Communication was very poor. We saw two luxirious Innova SUV waiting for us at the airport and were very happy. We all first went

Lakshadweep A group of islands off the Malabar Coast of south-western India, constituting a Union Territory in India, capital, Kavaratti. The group consists of the Laccadive, Minicoy, and Amindivi Islands. In 1982 we had gone to Bangaram, an Island Of  Lakshdweep. It is at the level of Cochin. The island's beach resort opened in 1974, and as the Agatti Aerodrome was completed it became more accessible to tourists. The Indian government is also pushing tourism on the island, w

This was my second visit to Kutch. I had gone  there earlier with my Husband who was a popular Cardiologist for teaching in India. Later on a new Technology called Echocardiography started and he was the first person to introduce that in Mumbai. He invited the famous doctor from Norway, who was the pioneer in inventing this technology after 2nd World war. He was inspired while walking along the beach looking at broken ships. This new  Technology transformed the practice of ma

Manali in Himachal Pradesh is now a very popular destination. Around 1956 we set out to go there all prepared with maps. From Delhi, we...

Filled with joy and excitement to see Pindari Glacier, we left Mumbai for Kathgodam in Uttar pradesh, now in Uttarakhand. We went to the tourist office and saw map showing route to the famous glacier. Our group consisted of my elderly parents, and me and my sister. In the evening we reached Kausani. As we had been there before we moved around with familiarity. In front of us was the western Himalayan range. We tried to identify different peaks. We were especially looking for

In my childhood, weekends were spent wandering around to places near by to Mumbai. We frequently went to what I would now describe as the...

Our trip to Kausani is historic in a way. Our parents did not accompany us. Instead, my father put us in charge of his young secretary...