Through My Lens

It was in the month of Sep 2011,we were on a holiday to our home town Payyanur. On holidays if i am in Kerala, i will be the most lazy person to start with an idea of an offbeat destination tour.The idea came from none other than my wife for the tour of the Payyambalam beach.In Kerala touring is always fine but the sweating is something which i hate a lot while touring in Kerala.Even though it was the month of Sep, still the sun god has given a lot of sweating with a cool breeze in the country side.I just asked about what other places other than the beach we can see around.She just mentioned about St.Angelo Fort.I told her lets go to the fort first and then by evening we will have our tour towards the Payyambalam beach. We set out for our destination.The Fort was some 55 km from my place,which is Payyanur. We set out for the journey at 2.00 pm in a hired white ambassador,which was still the pride of taxis in Kerala at that point of time.We reached the destination at around 3.10 pm. ...

My May 2015 visit to the Hassan and Chikmangalur belt was an eyeopener for me as an individual to know about the Hoysala architecture and its history.The Belavadi trip was not a planned one and we came to know about this place through Nitin,who is the owner of Thippanahalli Home stay where we stayed for 2 nights in this trip.Once our stay in the home stay was through we were planning to go to Belur and then Halebid. Seeing our ignorance about the place,Nitin came forward and had a word with the driver who was knowing some of those places.He told him why not he drive to Belur through Belavadi and see the Veera Narayana Temple. He agreed and we started our journey towards Belavadi.  As i was reaching Belavadi,one thing which i noticed in this part of the world was,the villages were really prosperous and in the surrounding villages of this place all the basic infra for the villages was available.The Indian villages in it's real glory can be seen in this part of the world.The ride...

I have been wondering since my school days when we used to study history and read words like castle and wonder at that time what’s this all about. Why the structure of some ancient monument in the west looks different from the monuments in India. As we grew I gradually got to know it’s the architecture followed in different parts of the world. In west the structure of the Castle is somewhat built in a very unique style which can’t be seen in this part of the world. Sometime in 2010, one of my friends had told that there is a palace in Bangalore which looks like a castle and which we call as the Bangalore Palace. From that time I have been trying to visit this palace and it took me almost some 4-5 years for me to get the most valuable time to explore this magnificent Palace. It was on the May Day, 1st of May 2015, when I was on a holiday that I decided to go to this Castle called Bangalore Palace. At around 10.30 am I embarked on my journey towards the palace and reached there ar...