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  • Will of The God-The Greatest Indian Short Story Ever

    by Narayan Kaudinya

    It was the year end night. Some friends had come over to celebrate. I had also called my brother-in-law who is an Investigating officer and an entertaining storyteller but seemed not quite himself that night. He stood alone, in dark, looking down dreamily with a tilted glass, now empty. I walked over and asked playfully if he was regretting over missing a shot at...

    23/01/2025
    Comments 134
    Guidance: Ways to grow, Maharashtra, Motivation and Inspiration, Short Stories
  • Moon, Woman, and the Essence Of a Long Life

    by Narayan Kaudinya

    Today is Mahashivaratri. This day and night has become the most important 24 hours of this life that I am living. I am in Kumbh as I write this. Or the ‘Mahakumbh’ as I must state. Since Makar Sankranti these days were probably the most auspicious 45 days of 2025 that had a celestial connection and are stated to have come back after 144...

    19/12/2020
    Comments 53
    Ancient Life and Research, Guidance: Ways to grow, Turiya and Ramakrishna: Conversations around self- A Photo Book, Yogic Studies

Recent Essays and Articles

25/09/2025

A Demon Who Loved Music

A Short History of Folktales in India Folktales are Oral stories that are passed down by the elders to...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 11
11/09/2025

Living Like a Pig

A Short History of Folktales in India Folktales are Oral stories that are passed down by the elders to...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 19
07/09/2025

A Chance Visit to One of the Oldest Temple of Uttarakhand

This times even though I wasn’t very excited somehow because of Work and also the pressure of going back...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 8
04/09/2025

The Night-Blind Son-in-law of Chhattisgarh

An old widow has an only son and he is night-blind. She somehow gets married to a nice girl...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 18
31/08/2025

Travelling through Rural West Bengal in Blazing Indian Monsoons- I

Monsoons are going on, Or are they going? They say that this year it’ll not only rain but the...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 75
29/08/2025

Walking Through Time- Exploring Prehistoric Lakhudiyar Cave Shelter and ...

On my way to Jageshwar Temple, at a curve I came across a board and behind it a big...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 26

On Trees as One Amongst Us

 “For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons.

  Their roots resting in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree."

Narayan Kaudinya

A Rural Indian Wedding Travelogue

14/08/2025

One Bengali Monsoon Wedding and a Rare Feast –III

After I experienced the most dramatic Orchestra by the Frogs and Company, drunk Kaushik later that night told me...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 85
26/05/2025

One Scary Night at the India Pakistan Border – Visiting Tanot Mata Temple ...

Amongst the six major wars since Independence in 1947, India fought its deadliest battle with East Pakistan which resulted...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 140
24/06/2023

A Memory of the Most Beautiful Woman : A Photographic Recollection of Three Days...

Dhapodi ji became a shepherd once she learnt that she would not be able to give Ambaram any children....

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 140
19/12/2022

About Kashmir, A Tale of Keepers and Rowing a Shikara to a Friend’s Wedding in...

Learning how to row was the most profound, useful as much as useless, but one hypnotic skill that arrived...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 82
13/11/2021

When a wedding arrived Magically in Rajasthan

It was a time of peerless freedom. I was a young Yogi travelling with a backpack, pen, diary and...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 139
28/09/2020

When a wedding found me travelling in Mumbai

It was then my first visit to Mumbai. And hence everything i was laying my eyes on went deeper...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 158

Nara, listen. Do yourself a favor, without thinking too much about it, pack a pillow and a blanket; and see as many trees and villages as you can. Trust me, you will not regret it.

Nara's notes from an old diary
23/01/2025

Will of The God-The Greatest Indian Short Story Ever

It was the year end night. Some friends had come over to celebrate. I had also called my brother-in-law...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 134
02/01/2025

Reset and Restart- 25 Lessons to Walk on In 2025

And as I press on this note to myself, some lessons that i am carrying from previous years that...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 78
18/01/2024

What is Success and How Did the Great American Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson Describe...

I was surfing through the net reading out loud some classic poems by English writers when I came across...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 57
01/01/2024

Reset Restart- 25 Lessons to Walk On In 2024

My dearest co-travellers, from Nara family to yours, Happy Happy Happy 2024. 2023 was a strange year for me...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 98
28/05/2023

Mind, Meditation and Expectations

by Narayan Kaudinya
15/03/2022

The Curse of A Tale: And Why each mother should make her child first, a ...

Sound is important. Anyone who takes on a story takes on the responsibility of passing it on. A.K Ramanujan,...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 55

Travellers of the ancient world were not merely travelling. They were writers, astrologers, mathematicians, they were observers of a different kind; they were seekers of the invincible absolute. They travelled sitting still, in their tapa, sadhna, in their meditation.

AK Ramanujan

FOLKTALES FROM INDIA

Folktales from India, Kerala, Oral Stories from Rural India, Tales from Rural India, Telangana, Uttar pradesh

A Demon Who Loved Music

A Short History of Folktales in India Folktales are Oral stories that are passed down by the elders to the younger generation. For centuries, folktales have been a crucial...

25/09/2025
Comments 11
Andhra Pradesh, Folktales from India, Indic Legend Stories

Living Like a Pig

A Short History of Folktales in India Folktales are Oral stories that are passed down by the elders to the younger generation. For centuries, folktales have been a crucial...

11/09/2025
Comments 19
Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Folktales from India, Indic Legend Stories, Oral Stories from Rural India

The Night-Blind Son-in-law of Chhattisgarh

An old widow has an only son and he is night-blind. She somehow gets married to a nice girl from a good family. They manage to keep his night-blindness...

04/09/2025
Comments 18
Andhra Pradesh, Folktales from India, Oral Stories from Rural India

The Cure for the Mother Spirits

A Short History of Folktales in India Folktales are Oral stories that are passed down by the elders to the younger generation. For centuries, folktales have been a crucial...

27/08/2025
Comments 17
Folktales from India, Karnataka, Oral Stories from Rural India

If it Isn’t You, It Must Be Your Father

A Short History of Folktales in India Folktales are Oral stories that are passed down by the elders to the younger generation. For centuries, folktales have been a crucial...

26/08/2025
Comments 24
Assam, Folktales from India, Oral Stories from Rural India

When a Black Dog Dies

A rich land owner- a zamindar was known for his short temper. He also had a weak heart. Therefore his household had a strict criteria for interviewing servants and...

24/07/2025
Comments 6

"An equation for me has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of God

S Ramanujan

Walking Through Time- Exploring Prehistoric Lakhudiyar Cave Shelter and Paintings

Published by Narayan Kaudinya

On my way to Jageshwar Temple, at a curve I came across a board and behind it a big Rocky Mountain that pulled me to inspect it. Upon reading...

29/08/2025
Comments 26
Ancient Life and Research, Ancient Travellers

11 Greatest Indian Circus Photographs of the 20th Century

Published by Narayan Kaudinya

I have been a Photographer in this lifetime. And I feel I have been a photographer first than being anything else later. And one thing that a photographer does...

19/08/2025
Comments 27
A Photo-Ethnographic Study, Ancient Travellers, Explorers and Documentarians, On Photography, Photographic Stories

A Land Devoted To Light

Published by Narayan Kaudinya

India that is Bharat* is the oldest living civilisation on Earth, and to even our surprise we at times get tired of celebrating so many festivals that arrive week...

24/10/2022
Comments 77
Ancient Travellers, Announcements and Celebrations, Enjoy the Paintings

Why Do I Like Gandhi?

Published by Narayan Kaudinya

Because he was an admirable Walker, to start with. 2nd of October is imprinted in each Indians heart. Not only because it is M.K Gandhi’s birthdate. But to us...

02/10/2022
Comments 67
Ancient Travellers, Gujarat, Health for Life Tips

Learning to listen is the essence of deep living

Swami Vivekananda

Walking The Himalayas

31/01/2023

30 Moments that I was Grateful for in 2022: Last Visual Notes of the Year

January of 2023 is going to get over today. And for once I wanted to take out time to...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 33
21/08/2022

Road to Kali Ka Tibba Chail; One monsoon day around Shivalik Hills in Solan: A...

When the migration ended. Pluto and I decided to spend our last day here. Walking for an hour or...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 44
17/03/2022

Last Few Days of Winter from my friend Rinku’s Home, in Naggar- Himalayas: A...

You know I love Delhi for its years old rich history, but more often than less, it has only...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 43
24/07/2021

The Road will Tell you- III/VII

It rains as i write this, mad heart, be brave. Continuation from Call of the Now and Life and...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 80
22/06/2021

Call Of the Now: Driving Maruti Omni Across the World’s Highest Mountains-...

Image : Looking over river Shyok entering into Pakistan, from the last remaining Tibetan Monastery in the Gilgit-Baltistan Region....

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 66
24/11/2020

The motorcycle, Dalai Lama and the Meal – I

Few years ago, I was travelling with once upon a time a beautiful friend. And like all great friendships...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 108

That's one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind.

Neil Armstrong

Yogic Studies

Assam, Indian History, Indic Legend Stories, Mysticism, Yogic Studies

The Untold Tantric Powers of the Yoginis of the Kamakhya Shaktipeeth

Unlike other temples, Kamakhya Temple doesn’t house traditional murtis of Yoginis. Instead, Yogini Pithas (sacred spots) are scattered around the temple, symbolizing their invisible yet omnipresent power. The temple...

01/05/2025
Comments 10
Ancient Life and Research, Enjoy the Paintings, Health for Life Tips, Mother Ganga, Photographic Stories, Travel and Life Tips, Uttarakhand, Yogic Studies

How an Old Man Taught Me to Reach the Tower of the Eternal Bliss, the Mystery of Fire And of the Universe On the Banks of Ganga?

I had a quick two-day tour to Haridwar with parents. A meeting with a Guru was arranged and they were excited about it. I, as was the deal had...

09/06/2023
Comments 38
Guidance: Ways to grow, Philosophy, Yogic Studies

Mind, Meditation and Expectations

28/05/2023
Mother Ganga, Uttar pradesh, Yogic Studies

The Phenomena Of Mind or Conquering The Internal Nature: Raja Yoga

Since the dawn of history, various extraordinary phenomena have ben recorded as happening amongst human beings. Witnesses are not wanting in modern times to attest to the fact of...

17/04/2023
Enjoy the Paintings, Haryana, Myanmar Burma, Non-Fiction, Yogic Studies

My Ten Strange Days of Meditation at an Age Old Vipassana Centre: A Complete Guide On The Final Answer

It was 1ST February 2007, when I first wrote this article. Fifteen days after, when my supposed vow of silence ended. That was my maiden spiritual experience of living...

20/11/2022
Comments 47
Central India, Indian Subcontinent, Mysticism, Turiya and Ramakrishna: Conversations around self- A Photo Book, Yogic Studies

Turiya and Ramakrishna: The Science of Breathing

The first act of Life as soon as we come out of mother’s womb is, we inhale. Maharaj Ji asked me to sit straight and take one deep breath,...

10/04/2022
Comments 77
Ancient Life and Research, Guidance: Ways to grow, Madhya Pradesh, Mysticism, Oral Stories from Rural India, Yogic Studies

Lore of the Light: A Brief History of Nine Planets in India- ४

It was a short journey and my first to Ujjain in Central India. The city of time itself. I was almost strolling when on the ghats of Shipra river...

06/03/2022
Comments 57
Turiya and Ramakrishna: Conversations around self- A Photo Book, Yogic Studies

A Brief History of Ancient Temples in India: The Secrets are in the conversation- ३

I had just arrived from visiting a temple in Uttarkashi with my Guruji in Uttarakhand. He is from the state and well versed in the ways of temple building...

31/10/2021
Comments 119
Ancient Life and Research, Guidance: Ways to grow, Motivation and Inspiration, Turiya and Ramakrishna: Conversations around self- A Photo Book, Yogic Studies

Turiya and RamaKrishna: Who Are You?- ११

Nara commentates … First called is Svante, alittle five year old sannyas aspirant, and subodhi, his mother. Ramakrishna tells him to shut his eyes which he does, instantly, with full obedience, tight and very still,...

23/10/2021
Comments 63
Delhi, Making of The Capital, Quantum Mode: Walking in Delhi, Turiya and Ramakrishna: Conversations around self- A Photo Book, Yogic Studies

Yogmaya : The Sacred Power that witnessed New Delhi – १

It was sudden. A day of change. Something shifted. Paradigm. Light. Its been months that I had known where to look yet It took time to find. Because it...

07/10/2021
Comments 9

Being a traveller is to carry; like a river, the memory. It is to flow, and surrender completely to exactly what is holding you.
It is to master your breath. To let the self be in bliss. It is to keep contemplating on the sublime, to travel as far within till you meet your sea.

T Krishnamacharya

Treks and Walks

Narayan Kaudinya Anuradha Rudrapriya Upadhyay Gadhimai Mela Festval, Nepal
14/11/2024

10 Years to an Insane Assignment Of Life ‘River Of Heads’ 

It’s been 10 years of those 10 electrifying current-passing days for what brought seeing to my spirit. Even today...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 14
08/05/2022

The Pond of Saraswati and Meeting With the Brahma Kamal : Nara on a four day trek to...

Continuing from FINDING Brahma Kamal: The Divine Flower Seat of Brahma: Nara on a four day trek to Rudranath...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 97
24/04/2022

FINDING Brahma Kamal: The Divine Flower Seat of Brahma: Nara on a four day trek to...

They say, “once you decide what you really want, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 41
12/12/2021

Days in the Hidden Valley of Mandal and a Small trek to Ma Anusuyadevi Temple : A...

While studying culture and ancient practises in the Higher Himalayas.Continuing from Pandava Forest and the Brahma Kamal : The...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 79
04/12/2021

FINDING Brahma Kamal: The Divine Flower Seat of Brahma: On a Rainy Night from Delhi...

While studying culture and ancient practises in the Higher Himalayas. Continuing from Pandava Forest and the Brahma Kamal :...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 60
26/11/2021

Pandava Forest and the Brahma Kamal: The Nights of Change in the Higher Himalayas &...

But before finding Brahma Kamal, Nara had to go through the forests where Pandavas once roamed. Pandavas!   The...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 118

One's happiness can only be measured by the average sum of sunrises and sunsets one has seen in his life.

Akira Kurosawa

Welcome To Heaven: Stories From the Line Of Control that May Enlighten The World– VII/Final

Published by Narayan Kaudinya

On the Great Himalayan Road Journey to Baltistan, today is the showdown, the final journey continuing from Call of the Now- I Life and nothing more- II Road will...

16/10/2021
Comments 102
A Photo-Ethnographic Study, Baltistan, Jammu and Kashmir, Laddakh, Non-Fiction, On The Road, Oral Stories from Rural India, Photographic Stories, The Great Himalayan Road Journey to Baltistan

The Wait Of Baltistan: Remembering Love and Lessons While Teaching in the Border Village of Turtuk – VI/VII

Published by Narayan Kaudinya

On the Great Himalayan Road Journey to Baltistan, the final journey continuing from Call of the Now- I Life and nothing more- II Road will tell you- III Remember...

09/10/2021
Comments 60
Baltistan, Indus River, Jammu and Kashmir, Laddakh, Pakistan, Shyok River, The Great Himalayan Road Journey to Baltistan

The Gun Mountains and Other Gods -V/VII

Published by Narayan Kaudinya

On the Road to Baltistan, continuing from Call of the Now- I Life and nothing more- II Road will tell you- III Remember me with a Lotus- IV :...

14/08/2021
Comments 97
A Photo-Ethnographic Study, Baltistan, Indus River, Jammu and Kashmir, Laddakh, On The Road, Pakistan, Photographic Stories, Save the Birdman of Kashmir, Shyok River, The Great Himalayan Road Journey to Baltistan

Life and nothing more- II/VII

Published by Narayan Kaudinya

Continuing from Call of the Now, for the Great Himalayan Road Reunion. : ँ : To Srinagara, to zojila, to Leh, to Hanle, to the land that invoked my...

15/07/2021
Comments 114
Baltistan, China, India, Indus River, Jammu and Kashmir, Laddakh, Pakistan, Photographic Stories, Road Journals, Save the Birdman of Kashmir, Tales from Rural India, The Great Himalayan Road Journey to Baltistan

“I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...”

Che Guvera

Mystics and Healers

26/05/2025

One Scary Night at the India Pakistan Border – Visiting Tanot Mata Temple ...

Amongst the six major wars since Independence in 1947, India fought its deadliest battle with East Pakistan which resulted...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 140
01/05/2025

The Untold Tantric Powers of the Yoginis of the Kamakhya Shaktipeeth

Unlike other temples, Kamakhya Temple doesn’t house traditional murtis of Yoginis. Instead, Yogini Pithas (sacred spots) are scattered around...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 10
13/02/2025

Five Heads of Brahma and a Boon Gone Wrong

In India, the term Trimurti is used in reference to the three faces of god. They are Brahma, Vishnu...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 15
10/04/2022

Turiya and Ramakrishna: The Science of Breathing

The first act of Life as soon as we come out of mother’s womb is, we inhale. Maharaj Ji...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 77
06/03/2022

Lore of the Light: A Brief History of Nine Planets in India- ४

It was a short journey and my first to Ujjain in Central India. The city of time itself. I...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 57
26/09/2021

Truth, Evil and the Sun

When we reached Gopeshwar that night, Gana seemed speechless. But Neel looked at him with satisfaction giving an expression...

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“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”

Socrates

The Capital

17/07/2025

HALF Way in or Half Way Out- Reflections on the Blog, Year and Life

I left Delhi again. And you know, every time I leave Delhi for a town or even a city,...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 31
23/11/2024

Back to Blogging While Breathing the Deadliest Air in the World’s Most Polluted...

My Road To Nara Family, Namaste again. I hope you have all been healthy and enjoying these last few...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 28
01/02/2024

Happy Birthday Ma and Other Stories: Summing Up January

February is a special month in Life. Ever since my arrival on Earth, nature has given me people in...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 66
22/01/2023

Lost In Yellow: Visual Notes of Evenings Spent Wandering Along River Yamuna and Old...

Much like Lost in Translation I had been wandering, walking for a Research Project in Delhi; One of the...

by Narayan Kaudinya
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30/10/2022

A Celebration for the Sun: A Brief History of Chhath in Paintings and Images

I had not decided to celebrate today. But nature pulled me in. For last few months I had been...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 44
11/08/2022

Making of a Capital : A Short Travel Poem and a Photo Essay

And now we move to the rhythm of this restlessnessOn these streets many people dead they drive with recklessness...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 45

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears

Ramakrishna Paramhansa

Motivation and Inspiration

23/01/2025

Will of The God-The Greatest Indian Short Story Ever

It was the year end night. Some friends had come over to celebrate. I had also called my brother-in-law...

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Comments 134
02/01/2025

Reset and Restart- 25 Lessons to Walk on In 2025

And as I press on this note to myself, some lessons that i am carrying from previous years that...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 78
09/02/2024

The Cost of Attention A Powerful Story to Transform Children into Conscious ...

Its nearing four months of my grandfather’s death. He lived for 104 years and barely narrated any story in...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 64
18/01/2024

What is Success and How Did the Great American Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson Describe...

I was surfing through the net reading out loud some classic poems by English writers when I came across...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 57
01/01/2024

Reset Restart- 25 Lessons to Walk On In 2024

My dearest co-travellers, from Nara family to yours, Happy Happy Happy 2024. 2023 was a strange year for me...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 98
25/09/2023

40 Before Forty: My ‘Bucket List’ for Life

Somehow, its not surprising that even after writing for last three years on this site, I never shared any...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 76
25/09/2022

Ten Hard Truths a Student Must Know For Life

Last week while taking a round in school, I felt someone is sobbing somewhere. I tried to find the...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 71
08/09/2022

NATURE and What We Humans Can Learn From the Inner Life Of Trees?

"If you want to walk in the moonlight, you might have to draw your own moon. If you...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 87

If you are brave enough to say goodbye, know that life would reward you with a new hello

Paulo Coelho

Life at School

Announcements and Celebrations, Delhi, Karnataka, Life at School, rajasthan, Uttar pradesh, Uttarakhand

HALF Way in or Half Way Out- Reflections on the Blog, Year and Life

I left Delhi again. And you know, every time I leave Delhi for a town or even a city, I am surprised with how pleasant the life is outside....

17/07/2025
Comments 31
Enjoy the Paintings, In Collaboration With, Life at School

Children Stories of Food and Picnic at School

Children have been busy since the turn of the year at School. There were unexpected holidays due to extreme cold in December and most of January which sidelined and...

14/03/2024
Comments 48
Delhi, Life at School

Happy Birthday Ma and Other Stories: Summing Up January

February is a special month in Life. Ever since my arrival on Earth, nature has given me people in Feb I feel I belong to. Now two, but the...

01/02/2024
Comments 66
Enjoy the Paintings, Life at School

What Children Dream?

Last Week when our projector abruptly died. We were in the middle of a focused class learning about the Human Body System. But the sudden death of our computer...

24/11/2022
Comments 77
Health for Life Tips, Life at School, Motivation and Inspiration, Travel and Life Tips

Ten Hard Truths a Student Must Know For Life

Last week while taking a round in school, I felt someone is sobbing somewhere. I tried to find the source of the sound. Up and below as it lead...

25/09/2022
Comments 71
Life at School

How Pandemic changed the Reality for Children? Corona Diaries from School

Its been over three weeks since our small school opened. Two years later; Seeing things coming close to a world more open, towards unafraid times again is nothing less...

24/03/2022
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“Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

Bhuvneshwari Devi

Enjoy the paintings

02/01/2025

Reset and Restart- 25 Lessons to Walk on In 2025

Narayan Kaudinya Anuradha Rudrapriya Upadhyay Gadhimai Mela Festval, Nepal
14/11/2024

10 Years to an Insane Assignment Of Life ‘River Of Heads...

15/10/2024

The Story of the First Ever Flight from India

25/03/2024

A Brief Visual History Of the Oldest Indian Festival of Colour...

14/03/2024

Children Stories of Food and Picnic at School

07/03/2024

List of 70 First Indian Women Masters in Various Fields Who...

09/02/2024

The Cost of Attention A Powerful Story to Transform Children...

01/01/2024

Reset Restart- 25 Lessons to Walk On In 2024

About me

Narayan Kaudinya

Narayan Kaudinya

Hi, I am Narayan Kaudinya. And i welcome you on this journey, the Road to Nara ! I am an Ethnographer and a practicing Indologist. I did my masters in History and further learnt Sanskrit, Yoga and Nerve-therapy. At 24, pushing most academic sounding, office sitting works away, i felt compelled to know and understand the world and my country, Bharat/India. I travelled, and as it happened i took up teaching in Kashmir and further up in the remote villages of Baltistan in the foothills of Karakoram Ranges. For around three years and many states later there came a time when i felt that it was only while teaching i learnt how to laugh, to see, feel, breathe, love and cry -with children, and mostly resource-less parents in the harshest-freezing border conditions. I write, and work as a documentary photographer and Filmmaker, with numerous published, exhibited and some awarded stories. In my travels and life i have let nature lead me, the divine mother, and as a Yogin, my resolve here is to share my experiences and thoughts as honestly, and through them to blossom in everyone the power and possibility in pursuing your breath, that you seek your true nature with courage and curiosity. Here, on this road i will share my spirit, my love for nature, the elements of life that are us. And in doing so, i'll be happy to see you along.

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Over Seas

Narayan Kaudinya Anuradha Rudrapriya Upadhyay Gadhimai Mela Festval, Nepal

10 Years to an Insane Assignment Of Life ‘River Of Heads’ 

by Narayan Kaudinya

It’s been 10 years of those 10 electrifying current-passing days for what brought seeing to my spirit. Even today I only think of ‘why’, was I there or was it that I was demanded by the Mother to witness it. Someone who has been away from most kind of cruelties, being born in a lineage who never tasted fish, leave meat. May be it happened to shake wake me up for all what life revolves around, some harsher realities, some withering truths. To may be learn the ways and come out of the skin of merely being a meek observer that after a decade of witnessing it eventually brought me immense strength. And learn to observe to absorb. And I absorbed;  the smell of the blood, the count of the severed big buffalo heads or peacocks, even pigs, goats, ducks and bodies of geese. And of course it were not the fallen bodies that pricked me but those dead big open eyes that were always looking at someone or the Sky but not you....

14/11/2024
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A Photo-Ethnographic Study, Ancient Life and Research, Bihar, Culture and Communities, Enjoy the Paintings, Nepal, Non-Fiction, Sacred Walks, The Higher Himalayan Research Walks and Treks

Two Days To Many : Few Days to the Angkor Wat Photo Festival in Cambodia

by Narayan Kaudinya

The newest feeling when you arrive in a new country, and not really to visit or to travel but you are invited. You are a fellow finding a story for a prestigious organisation. So active and pumped up i was that I had been walking everywhere for last two days in Siem Reap. But did not really reach anywhere. Concurrently It took me two days to understand that there are parallel roads running together through the Siem Reap central market, they looked very much alike. As it took me two days to understand two important Khmer words like Susrai/hello and okun/thank you, even though i am better with languages. I finally decided to rent a cycle with city tyres i.e. thicker than ususal as it was the best option I found then. And lord, it gave me wings. Today, I spent all day roaming around the outskirts of Siem Reap. Touching rural parts, unpaved roads, fields, seeing houses and realising the difference or the similarity with the huts there are in my country villages....

21/01/2023
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Cambodia, On Photography, Siem Reap, Walking along the Rivers

“I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed”

Marco Polo

Travellers of Time and Space on Earth

06/06/2025

10 Indian Movies that Visitors Must Watch before Travelling to India

India is a Land of Storytellers. Here, since time immemorial, stories through various ways have been the real medium...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 47
30/01/2025

A Deep Sense of Blind Faith and Books

The internet was supposed to liberate knowledge, but in fact it buried it, first under a vast sewer of...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 48
24/12/2024

25 Handwritings of History’s Most Famous Authors

that at a given period of my school life, I kept reading that book for several years at least...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 88
07/03/2024

List of 70 First Indian Women Masters in Various Fields Who Made History

India, that is Bharat, is the birthplace of Spiritual Wisdom, of Imagination. Be it giving the zero, the decimal...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 69
18/01/2024

What is Success and How Did the Great American Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson Describe...

I was surfing through the net reading out loud some classic poems by English writers when I came across...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 57
26/02/2023

From ‘A Man Without a Country’ : An Excerpt From an Interview With Kurt...

DAVID BRANCACCIO: There’s a little sweet moment, I’ve got to say, in a very intense book– your latest– in...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 18

Being able to listen well is a superpower, that comes with a key. And that is while listening to someone you should keep asking them “Is there more?”, until there is no more.

Keshvanand Maharaj

Short stories

Travelling through Rural West Bengal in Blazing Indian Monsoons- I

by Narayan Kaudinya

Monsoons are going on, Or are they going? They say that this year it’ll not only rain but the skies are going to weep. Clouds arrived four weeks early. And they have mostly stayed. Even the universe knows, that the monsoon times most children are angry or show their displeasure. They are told to not go out as it will rain, yet many go and whirl even at the expense of catching cold. Because only they know that cold does not exist, what does breathe in them is the joy of dancing with nature’s music. Few years ago, I travelled through Rural Bengal during the majestic Indian Monsoons. Being there it felt like my soul grew while only seeing the earth showing her abundance, her happiness. So many emotions churned within me then that I had to write a letter to a friend who sat far. Not to tell her as such, but to learn myself what was actually happening, to me. Many years later as I read this letter, I am taken back again...

31/08/2025
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Bihar, India, Letters to self, Non-Fiction, Oral Stories from Rural India, Santhal Tribe, Short Stories, Tales from Rural India, West Bengal

One Bengali Monsoon Wedding and a Rare Feast –III

by Narayan Kaudinya

After I experienced the most dramatic Orchestra by the Frogs and Company, drunk Kaushik later that night told me to rethink leaving for home instead consider this as a mystical invitation for a tribal wedding that he will be attending later that week. I was already on an extended journey here in Bengal, but incessant downpour set me up for long at Kaushik’s home in Jhargram. During one of those rainy nights Kaushik received a phone call, where his friend invited him a day prior to his sister’s wedding . I got excited and we decided to leave, with a condition. His friend asked us to reach by the daylight. We started from his home on time, but rain and bad roads took whole day to reach that place from where we had to take the last jeep for the wedding home to his friend’s village. It was a strange place. There were many people but I felt there was no one talking. Like at any crossroad in the world, people were walking, buying...

14/08/2025
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A Rural Asian Wedding Travelogue, Culture and Communities, India, Santhal Tribe, Short Stories, West Bengal

“In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self, and should therefore refrain from inflicting upon others such injury as would appear undesirable to us if inflicted upon ourselves.”

Mahavira

Poems

05/06/2022

If Only Trees

The Devdar tree by the rockThe Fir and the Pinemust have its memories too:after a thousand years,see how its...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 37
26/05/2022

But Love, and Other Poems

Just for a moment,sit down and be with yourself. Close your eyes and thinkhow short is our life on...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 33
21/08/2021

The Sins of America

Things have been volatile in our part of the world. Unsettling, as what happened was not conceived well before...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 129
24/08/2020

The Sweetness of Change

You will certainly know better things and worse things than those you already know, but that does not matter....

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 58
17/07/2020

The Lovers Of Aurangabad

Where are the lovers? The ones who roamed and flew kisses at each passing nightingale; that one who promised...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 47
30/05/2020

Singing the uhuru burn

The case of chasing sun a fat girl wedded to life singing the uhuru burn what will remain of...

by Narayan Kaudinya
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In order to be universal, you have to travel first. And if ever you happen to leave, i will ask you to carry your culture, or better never come back.

Narayan Kaudinya

On Cinema and Photography

19/08/2025

11 Greatest Indian Circus Photographs of the 20th Century

I have been a Photographer in this lifetime. And I feel I have been a photographer first than being...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 27
06/06/2025

10 Indian Movies that Visitors Must Watch before Travelling to India

India is a Land of Storytellers. Here, since time immemorial, stories through various ways have been the real medium...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 47
06/02/2025

What Do You Know About the Best Ever Movie the Number One Film on IMDB?

My dear Co-travellers, Road To Nara has been my Laboratory for sharing my life experiences as a a Writer,...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 34
29/02/2024

Children Of War and A Look Into the Parallel Universe

Once in many years comes a project that brings your life’s reality to a halt. Probably bringing a comma...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 86

Walking along the Rivers

14/01/2025

10 Secrets about Maha Kumbh Mela of 2025 that Each of us Should know

Tonight is Paush Purnima night as I right this. And it marks the start of the largest and the...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 47
16/07/2023

The Mother River and a Nostalgic Journey of Nara Family to Gangotri- The Origin of...

I am not at all sure how did the British came up with the name ‘”the Ganges” for the...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 66
09/06/2023

How an Old Man Taught Me to Reach the Tower of the Eternal Bliss, the Mystery of Fire...

I had a quick two-day tour to Haridwar with parents. A meeting with a Guru was arranged and they...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 38
17/04/2023

The Phenomena Of Mind or Conquering The Internal Nature: Raja Yoga

Since the dawn of history, various extraordinary phenomena have ben recorded as happening amongst human beings. Witnesses are not...

by Narayan Kaudinya
31/01/2023

30 Moments that I was Grateful for in 2022: Last Visual Notes of the Year

January of 2023 is going to get over today. And for once I wanted to take out time to...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 33
21/01/2023

Two Days To Many : Few Days to the Angkor Wat Photo Festival in Cambodia

The newest feeling when you arrive in a new country, and not really to visit or to travel but...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 6
30/10/2022

A Celebration for the Sun: A Brief History of Chhath in Paintings and Images

I had not decided to celebrate today. But nature pulled me in. For last few months I had been...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 44
15/05/2022

The Last Journey to Ganga and Scenes from my Ancestral Village : A Photographic ...

Visiting Grand Parents used to be the only time when the Joy of having many umbrellas multiplied the possibilities...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 75
06/02/2022

Home and the World : Walking around New Delhi and Old in January ’22

Even though every day, slowly months and years seem to pass as fast as they arrive; January is special...

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 50
04/04/2021

My Soul Journal and Expecting Times to Dip in the Rivers of the World

From time to time, a dip in the river changes your perception about that river you just became with....

by Narayan Kaudinya
Comments 69

River is Everywhere

Hermann Hesse
Going through Marilyn Silverstone’s colorful stories from North India and Himalayan Kingdoms in the 1960s It’s James Edward Corbett’s birthday today. Born in 1875 Nainital, Kumaon Himalayas. 150 years ago, today. So here I am, sharing, yet again, the most iconic tiger quote of all time. Washed Carpets Laid Out to Dry on a Mountain. Iran, 1972 An apt call for tourist Civility, Everything happens spontaneously On this day; 08.06.1924; forever etched in mountaineering history. George Mallory and Andrew Irvine’s final sighting on #Everest captured the imagination of generations leaving behind a legacy of bravery and the eternal question: did they reach the summit? Their story continues to captivate adventurers worldwide. Trees; they teach that growth requires patience and perhaps solitude. Another Morning, Ganga Kinare -by the River Ganga The best decision I ever made was to be quiet, I have nothing to prove. I’m not convincing anyone that I’m a great person. I’m not fixing what I didn’t break. I’m not fighting for anyone to see my worth. Whatever you do is on you. Just hope you don’t regret it. As for me, I’m moving forward, free and at peace. Ganga Kinare -by the River Ganga The First of June. . . Ganga Kinare -by the River Ganga Ganga Kinare -by the River Ganga Ganga Kinare -by the River Ganga Ganga Kinare -by the River Ganga Ganga Kinare -by the River Ganga ये जलेबी सी सीधी ज़िन्दगी। Ganga Kinare -by the River Ganga

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A Short History of Folktales in India Folktales are Oral stories that are passed down by the elders to the younger generation. For centuries, folktales have been a crucial...

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