It is my 10 years of photography and my 10th Calendar now. Every year beginning I publish 12 of my favourite photos from last year as a Calendar for the current year. All my calendars can be seen here. Learnings It took me few years to understand that my real interest is in travelling &… Read More Calendar 2020
Savandurga is a hill 60 km west of Bengaluru, off the Magadi road. The hill is considered to be among the largest monolith hills in Asia. The hill rises to 1226 m above sea level and forms a part of the Deccan plateau. Read on… This was slightly easier than our earlier trekking to Madhugiri View from top of the hill
The photos are best viewed on a laptop/desktop A well deserved family holiday to Kuttikanam, around 2Hrs drive from my home-town Pala. The weather was clear after rains, fortunate for me to get some good photos. From Pala we drove towards Kanjirappally & Mundakayam crossing many Rubber plantations. Took a quick stop at the view points… Read More Kuttikanam
Yet another Wayanad trip in bike. Me and my colleague Ritesh (who just decided to join me last minute) started from Banglore in two bikes on Saturday morning 5.30AM, took Kanakpura road and then reached Wayanad after crossing my favourite Bandipur forest. As usual it was filled with lot of greenery and oxygen. My dearest… Read More Wayanad
Office trip to Coorg, the place is still not recovered from the 2018 landslide. This is my third visit, previous ones were in 2015 with friends & in 2012 with family
If you are looking for a medium difficulty trekking near Banglore, head to Madhugiri in Tumkur district. Its about 100Km north of Banglore. Its a good alternative to Nandi hills which is getting very crowded nowadays. Here you will face very less crowd on the hill. The steps are marked well and except a small stretch… Read More Madhugiri
My favourite photos in 2018 for the 2019 Calendar.
Phuket is Thailand’s largest island, a popular destination in East Asia for those who love beaches and sea food. It is about 1hr flight from capital city Bangkok. We spend 4 days and 3 nights there, staying in Deevana Resort, in Patong town. The town is filled with street shops, restaurants, tour operators, massage parlours and… Read More Phuket Trip
Birth place of coffee in India – Chikamagalur. It is about 5 hours drive from Bangalore via Hassan. Good choice for a weekend trip, but better if you can spare one more day. We could see many Windmills on the way after Hassan. I always wanted to feel them very close and this time it… Read More Chikmagalur
We have faced a situation where we needed to create Json representation for a dynamic set of fields & their values which represented by a Map[String, String]. Example: Scala class case class Person(name: String, age: String, customFields: Map[String,String]) Default Json representation of above class will be: { “name”: “anil”, “age”: “30”, “customFields”: { “field1”: “value1”,… Read More Dynamic fields to Json in Scala
