Days in Cherapunjee
It was early evening as we stopped by Rityngkai, one of the few remaining colonial homes in Cherapunjee. A friend and I relaxed with cups of red tea after a day long hike, listening to tribal...
Travel
Working With Bamboo: Cottage 1, Arunachal Pradesh
Working with bamboo is a wonderful experience, even more so when you’re commissioned a strong colour centric theme. Surrounded by thick, green foliage and a skirted by a roaring river, it was important to keep...
A Wedding In Chettinad
A sweeping path leads up to the sandstone laid front porch, called thinnai. For a brief moment, the guests’ murmurs abruptly change into whispers of delight. The aroma of freshly ground spices, the unmistakable scent...
Market Finds
A jostling crowd intertwined with smells, sounds and sights of fruit, flowers, vegetables, meat, hawking limericks, the excited chatter of women, irritable children, familiar bargaining ploys and a consistent stream of colour - these are...
Tropical green! Influences from Sri Lanka
More Green inspiration-- this time from Sri Lanka! In October 2017, a long overdue visit to Sri Lanka became a reality as I decided that it was time to pay homage to the father of tropical...
Ziro
It takes five hours to reach Ziro from Itanagar, the capital of Arunachal Pradesh. The calm, stillness of the valley after being shaken in a loud, reverberating diesel vehicle was particularly striking as we descended...