Calendar 2019
My favourite photos in 2018 for the 2019 Calendar.
Phuket Trip
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
Chikmagalur
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
Dynamic fields to Json in Scala
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
36 Palms, Cherai
If you are looking for a wonderful stay at a beach house in Kerala, 36 palms boutique retreat should be in your list. Located at Cherai in Cochin, its a very good place for family as well as for chilling out with friends. It started gaining popularity after being the shooting location for the Malayalam comedy-horror… Read More 36 Palms, Cherai
Wayanad
Another Wayanad trip and stay in College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Pookode, Wayanad
Finally some rain
Mercury level dropped for sometime, we got a good rain here in Bangalore in the middle of this summer. Every rain is much more welcomed now especially after the alarming reports about Banglore’s water crisis. These photos were taken with my phone. A very similar photo I have taken years back using my DSLR (read the… Read More Finally some rain
Kottayam
Wonderful view from the window of our hotel room – Windsor Castle. Its located at one end of the Kuttanad paddy fields as you can see from the map.
Calendar 2018
My favourite photos from 2017 for the Calendar 2018
Aryankavu – Kollam
Christmas trip with Family to Aryankavu in Kollam district, Kerala. Aryankavu shares border with Shenkottai in Tamil Nadu. The famous Punalur-Shenkottai metre gauge railway line also passes through Aryankavu. First day we did a memorable trekking in the forest there. Next day visited Rose mala, a very remote village in the forest. We could see many peacocks… Read More Aryankavu – Kollam
Anil G Kurian 