On the road
The country, at ground level
Seminars happen in halls, in towns you reach by driving. The kilometres are not a hobby bolted onto the work — they are how the work gets done.
Two kinds of thing land here: full trip stories, and shorter road notes for the moments that do not need an essay — a conversation at a toll plaza, a stretch of highway where the light did something worth stopping for.
I never publish where I am right now. Routes and dates go up afterwards, and anything involving someone’s home or family stays at the level of a town rather than an address.
The Distance Ledger
What counts as a kilometre
I have said around five lakh kilometres (evidence: Stated by Dhruv, evidence being collected). My previous website said three lakh (evidence: Sources conflict — under review). Both numbers are out there under my own name, which is a good reason to do this properly rather than pick the bigger one.
So there is no spinning odometer on this site. When the total goes up it will be split three ways, so you can see what is solid and what is an estimate:
- Verified — reconciled against records held privately.
- Documented estimate — reasonable, stated method, not fully reconciled.
- Not yet mapped — travel that happened but has not been accounted for.
Every published trip carries its own distance, and those add up to the total. You should be able to check my arithmetic.
The underlying records — odometer photographs, service history, trip logs — stay private. What gets published is the figure and the method behind it.
Journeys
Journeys
Each one goes up with its route, its dates and its distance — and with the permission of anyone named in it.
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Journey
Campus run: the western corridor
A working route between institutions — seminar halls, long night drives, and the conversations that happen after the session ends.
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Journey
The long one south
The trip Dhruv describes as the hardest driving of the lot.
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Journey
Home road
The route back to the village — the shortest trip on the list and the one that carries the most.
Journey Atlas
The map comes after the trips
An interactive atlas of routes, stops and photographs is planned — filterable by year, state, purpose and distance, with a full chronological list and table as the accessible alternative, not an afterthought.
It is deliberately not the first thing built. A map with three pins on it is worse than a good list, and it costs you a lot of loading for the privilege. It arrives when there are enough journeys published to make it worth opening.
Raw location history is never ingested automatically. Every stop that appears on the map has been placed there on purpose.