I spent good chunk of last three or four years getting in touch with Indian communities all around Europe and beyond. I was deeply passionate about promoting and propagating Indian cinema, elsewhere i could, frankly. But while this promotional activity yielded only relatively unsignificant results, it still instilled in me deep sentiment for Indian cinema, coupled with keen interest in Indian culture and history. I visited India twice so far, both being visit to Kerala.
However, i do not intend this blog to be turning out into some fluffy promotional, tourism-like stuff. Frankly, i despise conventional notion of organized tourism. Rather, this blog will be diverse stream of (hopefully) interesting experiences, memories and informations. With necessary photo content of course, this being inevitably era of photos and pictures rather than plain textes.
PS Below is my photo with statue of all creating, all destroying, dancing Shiva.
You are welcome to India, especially Tamilnadu again. Every state has its unique culture, architecture, literature, art, entertainment etc. This statue of Nataraja (King of Dance) also originated from my place Chidambaram.
Great to know. Sadly, i had no chance to visit Tamil Nadu yet. I was almost boarded on plane to Chennai in December 2015, but back then, as you remember, there were those catastrophic floods in TN. So then, i spent my entire stay in Kerala.
Nevertheless, given that my role model is MGR, i am keen to visit Tamil Nadu in a future.
I've never been to India, but I like Indian culture and especially Indian food :). And that's a good point what you're saying about not wanting to turn your blog into some touristy cliche! :)
India is quite unique place, frankly, that too not in trivial way. I am saying that even more so because my visits in India were far from usual. And even i would want to, it is not easy to follow tourist-like path when you have to consider whether stairs are steep, or doors wide ;) .
Oh I see, but that means that you might see the not so often visited, less touristy places, which can be even more interesting :). When I'm at a foreign place, I don't like to follow the touristy route, I just like to explore freely anyway :) When you don't go on the touristy route, you might discover the more genuine side of life in a country. As far as I'm concerned the touristy spectacles are not always the most real representation of a place. :)
Exactly. And, beside all of this, i prefer each trip, or rather each journey, to have concrete purpose. I despise just roaming around and doing nothing productive, to put it simply :) .