Unlike in many countries, walks and walking tours are not common or popular in India. This series intends to promote the idea of walks that can enable travellers to see and experience the places better by getting closer. The series explores short and easy walking trails across India, with which a traveller can witness history, culture, life, landscapes and heritage of the country.The series will have fifteen walking trails, published through the month of June, containing detailed description of the walk along with maps, difficulty level, best season to do the walk, time of the day and distance of the trail.The places include, but are not limited to metros and cities, and are chosen from every corner of the country. The walk intends to cover a lot of variety, such as walking the sand dunes in a village in Rajasthan, experiencing devotion on the bank of Ganga, seeing history come alive in the remains of ancient structures and short walks in snow amidst views of the snowy peaks.Walks are a great way to see places, get up close to people and interact, observe carefully and see things better. They help the traveller take time and feel involved with the scenery instead of buzzing past and seeing things as a window-view. This series will assist you to find some great walks from all along the country and feel its pulse

The Dilemma of Stock I had enrolled with a stock agency a few

months back and had submitted some images. Any self respecting stock agency requires that the images be sold exclusively through them, and the photographers will not be permitted to sell those images directly.I have been writing for a few travel magazines lately, and any submission usually accompanies a few images. This put me in a dilemma. I could provide only left out, sub-standard images to the magazines that I had not submitted to the stock agency. The magazines I write would not have been able to pay the rates fixed by the stock agency and hence selling those images via the agency was ruled out. None of my choices were very desirable - to submit sub-standard images to the magazines or to submit sub-standard images to stock agency and provide the good ones to magazines. Finally I decided to close my account with the stock agency and asked them to do so.It was a pain having to choose between the two, but eventually the person I was in touch with the stock agency offered me a middle ground. I am now having images removed from the stock agency, but I will continue to keep my account and submit those images that I won't be using for other purposes. That probably means I won't be able to sell much of images, but is still better than closing my account.