Double Domino (Spiti, 2015; Part 3)

Chandra Tal (The Moon Lake) has been very rightfully named. Imagine a lake, crystal blue colour, resting in the lap of these magnanimous mountains glittering in the moonlight, exuding absolute silence, with only the wind and the ripples in the water to intercept the blue of the sky and that of the lake. Sitting there,…

Double Domino (Spiti, 2015; Part 2)

When our bus (HRTC, of course) made its way into the valley through bumpy, rocky roads, just a glance at the Spitian mountains and I knew that these were entirely different from the mountains we had seen in Manali or any other mountainous region before. They were rocky, rugged, barren, bearing the exact features of…

Double Domino (Spiti, 2015; Part 1)

This is not a travelogue. It isn’t a memoir. I didn’t jot all this down on my daily dairy. These are the ‘wordly’ illustrations of the myriad fragments of memories that I still carry with me, Smiling faces, rocky mountains, clear blue skies, and  a river that runs throughout Spiti. I was asked multiple times…