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the thorny old men

By chaitanya | Published: August 21, 2010
Saguaro National Park, Arizona, USA. I had seen these beautiful cactii only in pictures and gotten the scale completely wrong. I had imagined these old men of the desert to be only about 6′-7′ tall at the most. Towering more than 30′-40′ and standing tall on the canyon slopes, they start to appear like men [...]
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the taj

By chaitanya | Published: April 22, 2010
Agra, India. This was my second visit to the Taj. The stories of pollution from across the non-existent Yamuna are now folklore and I obviously expected to see it on the ‘pristine white’ makhrana marble. What I had not expected though was the crowds in the scorching summer heat, the kind of crowds and the [...]
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st. patrick's day

By chaitanya | Published: March 14, 2010
Baltimore, USA. For a few hours on this day, Baltimore turns ‘green’. It’s the only carnival the city can probably boast of. Guinness and Harp become the official drinks, green the official color and we turn Irish at heart. Festivals like these bring Baltimore out on the street. It’s the perfect start to the beautiful [...]
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snowcalypse

By chaitanya | Published: February 2, 2010
Baltimore, USA. 2 days and 2 Feet of snow and Baltimore has turned into a pristine white fairyland with snow covered trees and white mounts of fluff. It maybe a infrastructure nightmare, but snow transforms even the most mundane landscapes into magical ones. It reminds me of the white architectural models we built in school. [...]
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