Category: Spiritual Journey

I came to Ladakh seeking landscapes, but I found a land of paradoxes. It’s a cold desert that receives less than three inches of rain a year, yet it is home to one of Asia’s largest and highest saltwater lakes. It’s a place of immense, barren emptiness that holds the…

Ram se shuru hota hai iska naam… Its name begins with Ram, and its soul resonates with Shiv. This is Rameshwaram. My journey to this sacred island wasn’t planned. It was an extension of my trip to Kanyakumari, a pull of destiny that led me here on the auspicious day…

The question that began this journey was simple: “Where does Mahadev live?” I had sought him in temples and cities, but I felt a pull towards his truest home—the high, desolate, and sacred peaks of the Himalayas. This led me to the Shrikhand Mahadev Yatra in Himachal Pradesh, a pilgrimage…

It started, as most questionable adventures do, with a simple text in our four-person friend group: “Kedarkantha trek this weekend?” We were in Delhi, enjoying a pleasant 16°C winter. We had zero trekking gear, zero high-altitude experience, and a level of fitness that was, let’s say, more suited to navigating…

Today, I take you to Mathura—a city older than memory, where gods were first given human form in stone, and where the sacred Yamuna continues to flow with the stories of Krishna. My journey here, after trips to Kishangarh and Bharatpur, was a conscious shift from the mindset of a…

Welcome to God’s Own Country. We’ve all seen the pictures—the serene backwaters, the emerald tea hills, the golden beaches. But this time, I wanted to explore Kerala slowly, deeply, and a little differently. My journey from Delhi was a quest to move beyond the postcards and find the soul of…

The flight from Delhi to Kathmandu is deceptively short. In just over an hour, you leave one capital behind and land in another, but in reality, you’ve traveled across centuries. Kathmandu is not just a city; it’s a living museum, a spiritual epicenter where the lines between Hinduism and Buddhism…

What does it mean to be cold? We, in the cities, think we know. But a journey to Drass, in the Kargil district of Ladakh, redefines the very essence of the word. This is a place where temperatures plunge to -30°C on a regular winter day. It’s a place where…

Varanasi, or Kashi, is not a city you simply visit; it’s an experience that envelops you. As one of the seven sacred Sapta Puri cities, it holds a unique place in India’s spiritual geography. This journey was different from my usual solo travels. I was traveling with my mother, aunt,…

The journey to Haridwar, the fourth of India’s seven sacred Sapta Puri cities, begins not with a grand announcement, but with the rumble of a bus engine leaving Delhi after dark. It’s a passage from the structured present into a timeless, fluid world. My trip was twofold: to immerse myself…