In the land of Make Believe – Kushagra Shrivastava’s Blog

Hyderabad to Khandala

I had loads of interesting conversation at work with my colleagues. Some of them I made friends with at the breakout area. I had a chance to talk about music, politics, history, languages, art, movies, education, literature, travel, photography, crosswords, religion, and what not. I was thrilled — I didn’t know a crap about all these things. History, Movies maybe a little but everything else I had barely scratched the surface.

Some shots I took on a recent trip to Konaseema

We’ve so many places in India which are amazing, beautiful, and untouched. These places not only offer you a relaxed holiday but also let you enjoy and undertake tons of activities like rafting, boating, swimming, nature trekking, fishing, surfing, and what not. One such “still not very commercial” gem of South India is the Konaseema region of Andhra Pradesh.

The ruins of palaces, mosques, and fort walls at Bidar are quite a delight to watch.

I had heard about Shamirpet lake from a friend and thought it is on the same highway so why not visit it. We drove 10 kms further only to find that Shamirpet is on some other highway. We asked around and found a bad patch of road which leads to Shamirpet thanks to a friendly Cabbie.

I took these pictures when I was at San Francisco. This nice little birdy was kind enough to come back again and again and pose for me. Not the best pics that I’ve taken but sure enjoyed taking them.

After spending quite some time at Mumbai recently, I had several thoughts which I wanted to pen down. During my visits to the city of dreams I met and talked with as many people from different walks of life on what they think of Bombay as it was earlier known as. I talked about so [...]