Anil Bairwal, Sep 2022 On one of my trips into the Uttarakhand mountains last year, I stopped for a short break at the Cheetal Grand restaurant, near Muzzafarnagar. For those of us who have been taking the old National Highway 58(now re-numbered) for decades, Cheetal restaurant…

Anil Bairwal, Aug 2022 This beautiful artwork is from Haridwar. It is painted on a wall of an overbridge across Ganga near Har-ki-Podi. The painting is right next to the river bank and gives an impression that the baba is trying to cross the river on…

Anil Bairwal, July 2020 When I was growing up, in a remote village in Western UP, the kanwar yatra used to be an all-male affair. The role of women was that of a helper— wives helping their husbands, mothers their sons, and sisters their brothers.  They…