March 2008 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper
This month’s calendar is of the views of distant hills in early morning fog.
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About the picture: This was shot from Nandi Hills near Bangalore a month ago.
Index to Hampi, Badami, Aihole, Pattadakal
Here is the list of stories from my Hampi and Badami trip. You can also go to the first post and use the navigation to read all of them in sequence.
Also see:
* Images from Badami, Aihole and Pattadakal
* Images from Hampi
* Earlier trip report to Hampi
Hampi
* Arriving at Hampi
* The days in Hampi
* One evening, in Hampi
* Badami
* Banashankari
* Pattadakal
* Mahakoota
* Playing Cricket in Aihole..
* Aihole’s temples
* Information: Badami, Aihole and Pattadakal
Mahakoota
Each of these places had plenty to offer, but if I were to pick a highlight of the whole trip, it will be Mahakoota.
William Dalrymple on Travel Writing
I have been reading Dalrymple’s City of Djinns right now, and can’t help but wonder how nicely written it is. Besides being a good book, the amount of homework and research he has done for the it becomes fairly obvious as I go through the pages. Sometimes, I did wonder how he can recollect some of the fine details. I got the answer to it today, as I stumbled upon Dalrymple’s say on taking notes.
It’s absolutely vital to have a notebook in your hands at all times, and to scribble constantly, not so much full sentences as lists of significant detail: the colour of a hillside, the shape of a tulip, the way a particular tree haunts a skyline. Creating the finely-crafted prose comes later, back at home in front of the computer. On the road – even in a rickety bus or a bumpy jeep – the key is to get down the raw material before it’s lost to memory.
Read the full article on travel writing by William Dalrymple here.