Ink On The Move – Flying South to The Nilgiri Library
A trip back to Jennifer’s alma mater, The Lawrence School Lovedale, is incomplete without a visit to The Nilgiri Library. For this fortunate alumna to release a book there is more than an honour!
Author: Jennifer Nandi
Jennifer Nandi thrives as a guide, turning her passion for travel and natural history into a career filled with excitement and the embrace of uncertainty. She enriches her tours with knowledge and the courage to explore, transforming each journey into an adventure of beauty and mystery. She is the author of No Half Measures, a travelogue set in Northeast India. Read her book tour series, Ink On The Move, exclusively on The Green Ogre.
Ink On The Move – Things Fall Apart, But The Book Holds!
When Jennifer’s book tour took her to Ladakh and Kashmir, things couldn’t have been peachier. But back home, her world was coming apart.
Ink On The Move – In The Kashmir Valley
Jennifer Nandi’s book tour takes her to the Kashmir Valley, where she stays at Nadis, a lovely boutique hotel not far from Dachigam, home of the Hangul
Ink On The Move – Leh Lady Leh!
In the third episode of Ink On The Move, her book tour travelogue, Jennifer Nandi travels to Leh, Ladakh to talk about her book, No Half Measures. As always, her tribe of well-wishers and friends enriches her experience
Ink On The Move – Icebreaker At Munsiyari
In the second episode of this book tour series, we travel with Jennifer Nandi to the beautiful Himalayan village of Munsiyari, which is equally picturesque as her prose…
Ink On The Move – On the road with ‘No Half Measures’
Jennifer Nandi’s first book No Half Measures soared to the No. 1 spot on Amazon Bestsellers. Here’s the story of how she made it happen – a DIY lesson for all self-published authors!
Bengal Floricans & A Zen Moment | Excerpt from No Half Measures
Read an exclusive excerpt from Jennifer Nandi’s dazzling new book, No Half Measures
On hobbled knee across the Nandakini
In the final episode of her Bedni Bugyal travelogue, Jennifer Nandi crosses a bridge and a river into another consciousness, one that holds the tranquility of the Himalaya and perturbation over its future in delicate balance The snow-clad flanks of the hills reflected in Bedni Kund was a vision that sustained us…
Odyssey to Bedni Bugyal – Shelter from the Storm
In the penultimate episode of her Bedni Bugyal travelogue, Jennifer Nandi revisits the Himalayan hamlet of Kanol, tucked into a fold in the vast district of Chamoli and haunted by the ghosts of ancient forests long lost to the logger’s axe Our reception committee at Kanol. Behind them, Satish and…
Odyssey to Bedni Bugyal – A night in Wan
In Wan, Jennifer Nandi marvels at the great Himalayan night that has no trouble falling, and laments how so many city-dwellers look skyward and never see the stars The guest house at Wan adjoins a grove of some of the tallest deodars in all of Uttarakhand The village of Wan is…
Odyssey to Bedni Bugyal: The trail to Wan
Distances in the Himalaya can be tricky, especially when pointed out desultorily by a guide deprived of his liquor. Thus captained, we descended the bleak slopes of Bedni toward the village of Wan. Jennifer Nandi’s spellbinding Bedni Bugyal travelogue continues… The descent from Bedni Bugyal With our faces turned towards…
Odyssey to Bedni Bugyal – In another world
In the charming alpine meadow of Bedni Bugyal life goes on as if on another planet, though Jennifer Nandi notes that our inexorable worldliness has preceded our arrival here Life’s symmetry, reflected in Bedni Kund Trishul peeks fleetingly behind scudding cloud and the earth is white. I can hear melt-…
Odyssey to Bedni Bugyal – Slow Deterioration
We arrive at Bedni Bugyal, but only barely. Food, shelter and rest are in pitifully short supply. Add to that the prospect of two long, cold, terrifying nights at 11,000 feet. An hour later, Bijoy comes up to us to beg a sip of water. I point wordlessly to the…
Odyssey to Bedni Bugyal – Didana to Ali Bugyal
Pressed to ascend an indefinite distance to the alpine meadow of Ali Bugyal, Jennifer Nandi’s mind fastens to thoughts of self-preservation and meditations on the Zen of climbing Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, we set off from Didana the next day on what we’ve been told is roughly an “eight-kilometre easy trek”…
Odyssey to Bedni Bugyal – A Day at Didana
To derive joy from the simple act of birdwatching, all you need to do is wait, watch and listen. Jennifer Nandi reveals the Birding 101 in the third episode of her travelogue on Bedni Bugyal A Blue Whistling Thrush, ever the skulker, trails us as we walk its wooded paths…