This is a selection of pictures I have chanced upon while stabbing the web. Some unseen, some not. To my eyes, they don’t appear to have been digitally altered but I can’t say that with conviction. Still, the images reveal some incredible perspectives by people being in the right place, in the right light. I have not the faintest idea about who these shutterbugs are (and frankly I haven’t tried very hard to ferret the info) but would like to dedicate this post to their wonderful camerawork. Cheers.
Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh
River Kaveri, Tamil Nadu
Backwaters, Kerala
Mandya, Karnataka
Rajgad Fort, Maharashtra
Ooty, Tamil Nadu
Cherrapunji, Meghalaya
Udaipur, Rajasthan
Nagaland
Spiti, Himachal Pradesh
Kanchenjunga view, Sikkim
Puneetinder Kaur Sidhu, travel enthusiast and the author of Adrift: A junket junkie in Europe is the youngest of four siblings born into an aristocratic family of Punjab. Dogged in her resistance to conform, and with parental pressure easing sufficiently over the years, she had plenty of freedom of choice. And she chose travel.
She was born in Shimla, and spent her formative years at their home, Windsor Terrace, in Kasumpti while schooling at Convent of Jesus & Mary, Chelsea. The irrepressible wanderlust in her found her changing vocations midstream and she joined Singapore International Airlines to give wing to her passion. She has travelled extensively in Asia, North America, Australia, Europe, South Africa and SE Asia; simultaneously exploring the charms within India.
When she is not travelling, she is writing about it. Over the past decade or so, she has created an impressive writing repertoire for herself: as a columnist with Hindustan Times, as a book reviewer for The Tribune and as a contributor to travel magazines in India and overseas. Her work-in-progress, the documenting of colonial heritage along the Old Hindustan-Tibet Road, is an outcome of her long-standing romance with the Himalayas.
