When A Bunch Of Animal Lovers Moved Mountains To Convert a Hostile Gated Society Into A Haven For Stray-Turned-Community Dogs

Looking at social media, you’d think the world is becoming a kinder place for animals. One’s feeds constantly turn up heartwarming stories of shopkeepers letting stray dogs sleep inside during winters, giant water bowls for animals being installed at streets during scorching summers, adoption of stray dogs over buying breeds, the shift towards veganism, and so on. But the world isn’t all that rosy for all the animals, yet. This is a story of how a bunch of animal lovers turned activists to fight for the right of a few…

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Visiting The Erotic ‘Kamasutra’ Temples at Khajuraho, India With A Side Trip To Orchha

Erotic khajuraho temples

Nearly 200 years after they were rediscovered in the 1850s, I discovered the Khajuraho Temples in 2014. Sitting pretty in the literal heart of India, Madhya Pradesh, is a group of 12th century Hindu and Jain temples, which are prominent for their erotic depictions — although only about 25% of the Khajuraho group of temples are actually erotic, and only about 20 temples out of the original 80 odd temples have survived destruction by weather and Mughal invasions. Built in the medieval century by the Chandela Dynasty, the Khajuraho temples…

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A Disaster Of Group Trip to Hongkong And Macau

I usually remember all my travels like it was yesterday and that’s why I’ve managed to create memoirs out of them even years later here on my travel blog. But no other trip of mine has been a blip on my travel history like the Hongkong one. I have to actively look at the map to even remember I’ve spent a whole week across Hongkong and Macau in another life! So what went so wrong that makes me cringe about this trip so much? Let me try to piece together…

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