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This freedom that's bestowed on us is not devoid of suffering.

(You) gave me these pills and then drugs, sex and bliss.

D1.1 A rocky start # Bangalore-Hosur # I started from Mahadevpura at 7:30 am on the 30th.

My roommates in the dorm at Komic were Sunil from Ahmedabad and Pamposh from Punjab.

I bid goodbye to the Bengali group and headed down the fields to Chicham bypass road to catch the 8:30 am bus to Kaza.

Jonas—after his ten-day stint at Tabo—finally decided to leave for Kaza.

View of Tabo monastery from my room.

Giu monastery is known for the remains of a lama who has been mummified because of unknown reasons.

The new monastery building in Tabo.

I woke up at 4:30 am so that I could pack all my stuff and leave at 5:00 am.

The bus to Chitkul departs from Peo at 9:30 am.

Shravan—the hotel caretaker—walked me off to the Post Office opposite to Reckong Peo bus stand.

It took me thirty-three hours to reach Reckong Peo!

Top row: stomach ailment, skin care, sprain and wound care.

In June, I have produced and engineered two songs—for two completely different projects.

I have been using DigitalOcean for the last three years.

MW was published in Big Comic from 1976 to 1978.

Blue Is the Warmest Color is the first full length graphic novel by Julie Maroh.

Like all previous years, I had called my sister and my mother to Bangalore in March.

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Things to know before reading # While it is possible to enjoy the book without having any background of the Israel–Palestine conflict—just the way I had read through the book when I bought my copy years ago—the understanding of this piece of work gets ele…

On June 2017, Alex Honnold made history by climbing El Capitan without ropes or harness—a discipline of climbing known as free soloing.

Nowadays I enjoy some bit of hiking and backpacking.

I saved the best for the last.

My bus landed in Brussels at 9 AM.

Me and Partho had already reserved our respective departures from Berlin late tonight.

The cost of the night at our hostel (A&O) had skyrocketed to more than the double of nominal price.

Partho was supposed to meet me in Berlin the day before yesterday.

Berlin Wall # Berlin Wall is no more.

On days that involve travel, there isn’t much to be done.

Lennon Wall # Lennon wall is a free-to-graffiti wall situated on the other side of the river, near the entrance of Petřín hill.

Kutná Hora is a small town situated about 60 kilometres from Prague.

The Old Town Hall # As soon as I got out of my hostel, my phone network went off.

Rupanjan had been a great host to Partho and me in the last four days.

Partho had proposed two options—either we go to Zugspitze or Salzburg.

Spielzeugmuseum (toy museum) # Most of the interesting places to visit in Munich are in and around Marienplatz.

Museum Fünf Kontinente (The Museum of Five Continents) # The weather gods were not with us.

From Hamburg to Munich # On 30th November, I was done with my work.

Guns, Germs and Steel is a seminal book by the ethnographer Jared Diamond.

The idea of playing a cover of “Arriving Somewhere but Not Here” by the venerable Porcupine Tree was by our very own Shounak Roy.

Amongst all the books on Tibet (and Tibetan Buddhism), Tibet, Tibet holds a very unique position.

Short background: I intend to document a series of quick dishes that are conducive to the survival of a lazy guy, something that can preferably be done under twenty minutes.

A new lineup # Our last show with Korak was in November, post which he left to pursue his post-doc.

If there is one word that describes The Castafiore Emerald, it has to be deception.

About an year ago, I embarked on [updating my hybrid](http://Hybrid mod ‘17) with a better groupset (Deore M61x).

One last trip around Dehradun # As soon as I got up, I went towards the bus terminal.

If I had done Har-Ki-Doon, today would have been the day that I would have descended from Sankri to Dehradun.

During winters, the hotels do not have adequate staff to take care of the few rooms that are kept open.

The sweet shop across the street was visible from our window.

We packed all our stuff one last time, returned the micro-crampons and had some tea and pancakes for breakfast.