Harish Dixit

Pitstop at a fuel station Harish Dixit Senior Infrastructure Manager – APAC Linkedin Every trek teaches you something. A few teach you about yourself and some teach you about people. My trek to Sarasgad Fort, this weekend, with the group called “Blind Who Trek” did both, and it humbled me in ways that two decades of trekking across four continents, had not. After paying the registration fee, I was added to the WhatsApp group and received the itinerary. The plan was simple. Our bus pulled out...

Mangoes and Kokum Harish Dixit Senior Infrastructure Manager – APAC Linkedin There is something quietly extraordinary about the way a childhood memory can find you when you least expect it. Not through photographs or stories told at dinner tables, but through a smell, a sound, or the sight of someone you love doing something wonderfully unselfconscious. Last week, I was on a family vacation in Dapoli, Ratnagiri, when it happened to me. We had woken early that morning to the fluting calls of...

Harish Dixit Senior Infrastructure Manager – APAC Linkedin For five years, a tiny, nine-coloured wonder had been giving me the slip. The first time I heard its cheerful two-note whistle on one of my morning walks, I ran towards the sound. But by the time I got there, the bird was gone. All I had was a sound recording and a heart full of hope. After that, friends and fellow birdwatchers kept spotting it in different corners of the city. It even entered people’s homes, primarily due to...