Everyone has some fantasy, get-up-and-go reverie. As an itinerant plus not less than a gypsy, I too have a fantasy. What is difference between the fantasy and trance? Fantasy is the pensive, something which is not lifelike and trance is an all-encompassing word which comprises saneness as well as the imaginings. I don’t know, should I call it as fantasy or a trance. I know one thing that I will put efforts one day to make it tangible. So my travel fantasy is traveling thousand kilometers on road with a backpack visiting every single village, town or city on the way. The intention is to know the realm more profoundly. I know it is difficult but not impossible. Amazing aptness, imperturbability combined with will power is required. Thousand kilometers is comparatively less. I am sure there must be individuals who must have done this crazy traveling before. I strongly believe in one thing that with planning and adequate groundwork, anyone can turn ca...

When for the first time I entered the real desert of Thar, driver of the truck in which I had taken the lift, informed me that small settlements at which I was staring are dhani. After informing me, he focused on driving but I was still in bewilderment that what it means. What is a dhani? Out of nosiness I questioned the truck driver, he told me that dhani is just a small settlement of clans of Thar. These clans are amazing. Less than five families stays in a dhani. Their homes are made up of wild bushes and mud. As in this expanse less than hundred centimeters of deluge fall is witnessed annually, these houses are not at the peril of getting washed away. To my surprise, when I intermingled with the people of couple of dhani, I came to know that they are not deprived, they all are millionaires. Each family has more than five hundreds of cattle and they take out milk and supply it to the city of Jaisalmer. Farfetched fact is that their living standards doesn’t project the...

Throughout my four months of protracted expedition of reconnoitering Thar, in the end I found a place to stay for a while. I am weary at this point of passage, but still I am so much in adoration with the sand. Erudite so many things about the sand, populaces, gust, flora and fauna. I just don’t want to go away from this place but my body is not supporting me. Now, I need rest. One month long break in store for me. With all these contemplation in my cognizance, I got down of my bed and started moving towards bathroom to take shower to get rid of the heat. I saw a spider inside my bucket which brought a big smile on my lips. I grabbed out my mobile phone to capture this funny creature who was trying to subsist from the heat by hiding in my bucket. As soon as I took my phone nearer to this spider, it changed its color from sandy brown to red as if it was set on fire. This was a new familiarity. I don’t know if apprehensive researcher...