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  • Turgenev’s Sketches from A Hunter’s Album: On The Value of Nature

    This is part one of a series of posts exploring Ivan Turgenev’s Sketches From A Hunter’s Album. I recently finished reading Ivan Turgenev’s Sketches From A Hunter’s Album. It is a compilation of short “sketches” about Russian country life written by Turgenev whilst hunting on his mother’s estate in the early 19th-century, and was first…

  • Core Purpose Thinking: Going Analog Part 1

    This is hopefully the first in a series of essays that I want to write to explore “Core Purpose Thinking”. Table of Contents (because this is a long article) What is Core Purpose Thinking? This phrase just came into my head one day – I am sure it has been coined elsewhere before, so I…

  • Video: Riding The Road to Heaven

    My first effort putting together videos I took of our ride to the Rann of Kutch and the “Road to Heaven” – a three thousand kilometer round-trip starting from Delhi and ending in Gujarat through the historic desert state of Rajasthan.

  • Motorcycling in Mallorca

    I explored Mallorca for eight days on a Harley-Davidson Sportster 883, recording the places I visited with my Insta360, iPhone camera, and my humble Moleskine journal. It was a magical experience – to live like a wandering cowboy (or, I quote, “a character out of a Spaghetti Western” as I heard someone describe me at…