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  This is an appreciation post for the travel documentary Songs of the River Ganga . It is not a review, it is just a record of what I liked about the web series Out of the blue, a friend messaged, “ Watch Songs of the River on Disney Hotstar”. Usually her recommendations are good, so I made a mental note of that. But then I did not have a subscription. “You won’t need one”, she said. It was free to watch. A couple of days on, I clicked the trailer.  The trailer featured Shantanu Moitra.“The music director of Parineeta”, I noted.  He went on a cycling expedition. Interesting!  Few thousand kms . Wow!  From Gangotri to Gangasagar. Very interesting!  I decided it was worth giving it a try. Episode length - 45 min. Will definitely need to set aside time for this. After all these mental notes, I made time and started watching. From the first episode itself, I realised that the tale is special. It is genuine; it is an unhindered sharing of emotions and experienc...

For those who are looking for relevant information to travel to Bandung, please scroll down to the end of the post. Feel free to email me, and I can share whatever limited knowledge I have. Last weekend, we went to Bandung , a city about 120 km. from Jakarta. This was our first outing since we came to Jakarta, and we were really excited about it. The plan was to start at about 6am and be back by 10pm. We had gathered a list of places to visit in Bandung, a pretty long one :). Then as friends suggested, we had to choose only 3 or 4 as that was all that we could have done justice to, in a span of 8-9 hours. The travel started along the crowded toll road, as we navigated through the traffic leading to Bekasi and  Chikampek (Industrial settlements outside of Jakrta). As we moved ahead, the traffic started reducing, the road getting more and more beautiful. This country seems to be blessed with each and every colour of green that is possible. Hill slope farming could be seen along...