Broken Bangles: Travel, Stories, Thoughts

 Hi traveller, If you admire lived history and local culture, Chandni Chowk in New Delhi is your ultimate destination. The narrow lanes of this vast market stand seeped in the legacy of trade and commerce spanning centuries. Markets are the most vibrant and lively locations in any civilisation.  Local markets give you the most authentic experience of this vast country, India. The multi-fashioned and multi-flavoured markets, immense in size and produce, and filled to the brim with people and their sounds, present a chaotic yet intricate experience of India's scintillating diversity. In such a place, you view life in its beautiful bountifulness. It is a place where all your senses are invited to participate, there are multitudinous sights of life pictures to see, sounds to listen to, scents to inhale and delight in, and the voluptuous touch of food and coveted consumer items. Chandni Chowk If you visit India, your experience of this country will never be complete without visitin...

  Scents affect us deeply and more than we think they do. The scents we experience in our childhood leave an indelible mark in our minds. What is in a Scent? The season's first rain gushes down. The Earth emits the lovely fragrance of wet soil. We are enamoured and find ourselves longing for all things good. A long-forgotten scent suddenly evokes a memory of a place or someone. An exquisitely rare yet familiar scent makes us realise that a milky pine has bloomed. How many times a day does a scent evoke an emotion in us? Remember how aromas deeply stimulate memories and emotions. The Scents and Our Lives Unlike other sensory organs, the nose provides a highly nuanced experience that cannot be easily recorded, defined, or deciphered. Of course, we can always write down those experiences but could end up missing the essence. Scents surround us all the time but we cannot record them for posterity. Hence, we make perfumes, scented candles, and potpourri to capture and re-exper...