![Autumn Walks At Winkworth Arboretum](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Landscapes-11.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
If you have not taken the autumn walks at Winkworth Arboretum, you have missed something in life. That’s the verdict. It was a long drive…
![Travel, Travelogues, and Travel Sketchbooks](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Tate-Modern750-1.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
My mother wrote a diary whenever she travelled which was once a year. My father worked for a Tata Group company and he would meticulously…
![The 2020 Pre-Lockdown Pictorial Diary](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG_9243-scaled.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Unlike other years, this pictorial diary of 2020 will be divided in two parts. No marks for guessing. Before Lockdown and After Lockdown. Conducted a…
![Travel Diaries](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Travelnobar750-3.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
“What are you tearing? Diaries?” Lulu picked up a bit of torn paper and looked at it curiously. “Actually, Monthly Planners as they are called….
![A Grave Situation](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Highgate-Cemetery.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
You do not look forward to visiting a grave! When you are young you think that some ‘spirit’ resides in the graveyard, and it might…
![A Question of Art](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Man750.png?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
He swooped down like a dart, fluttered his wings and settled down on my shoulder; I was watching scenic landscape in front of Tate Modern…
![Speakers' Corner And Freedom of Speech](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Speakers-Corner750.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
I got down from the Big Bus at Hyde Park. Opened Google map to discover how to reach Speakers’ Corner when Lulu, my parrot, landed…
![When Cricket Mimics Life](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Cricket-750.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
Before I left for London, I had decided that I will be watching the fifth test match between India and England. That was of course…
![Discovering Residence of Sister Nivedita](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sister-Nivedita-sepia750-1.png?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
I enjoy my stay abroad. But long stays have periods of boredom unless you plan what to do. That was a lesson learnt in the…
![Rhinos of Kaziranga](https://i0.wp.com/vivekvsp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/imageedit_11_2628162048.jpg?resize=470%2C140&ssl=1)
We started early for Kaziranga National Park to watch Rhinos. Our guide said ‘You must reach at the park before dawn.’ We agreed. Not so…