Welcome to Dirty Old Boots

After having travelled for over a decade and exploring the vast expanse of this wonderful subcontinent, I decided to structure the experiences, remove the pitfalls and answer some queries that I have had over the years. That was the germ of an idea some three or four years ago and today it has culminated in the launch of Dirty Old Boots. It is a travel resource for travellers, by travellers, with information that travellers want. Largely I have found that information about places, destinations, things to see, routes, maps, etc are very inadequate. Information that is available is guarded as State secrets. Dirty Old Boots is trying to address that situation.

I love travelling and I love photography. And Dirty Old Boots is a resources that is entirely on video. Take a look at the website and you will get a glimpse of things to come. It is still in its early infancy and over the next few months we hope to create something unique, something relevant, something different and something very new. The target is to have at least 50,000 videos in the next two years. And when I say infancy, the proof of that is in the fact that Dirty Old Boots has all of 31 videos today. It is not just work in progress but the raw materials are being gathered. We have put the information out in the public space because we are way too excited. Four of us - Plaban Bagchi, Prerna Siddharth, Akhilesh Mishra and me - are trying our best to put a structure to what we all have in our heads. Just wait for the next few months.

Life has been exciting these last couple of months. we enjoy our work, we have fun and seeing each new video in the public space gives us immense joy and satisfaction. I still remember the time when we cross 100 video views. It was elation. And then we crossed 1,000. Today we are just over the 7,000 video view mark, inching towards the magical 10,000 mark. Someday we hope a whole lot more zeros will be in that number.

In the last month we have travelled to Manali, we have rafted down the Ganges in Rishikesh, we have prayed with the faithful at Har Ki Pauri, we zip up and down the streets of Delhi every day, capturing all that we can. In a couple of hours we are off to Mathura - Barsana actually - to capture on film the unique festival of Lathmar Holi.

For the moment take a look at the video we produced on rafting down the Ganges. The film on Holi should be up in a week or so.

It is great to be back on the blog. I hope to update it as often as I can. Do visit the site, click on the LIKE button and share it with your network on Facebook. You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel ... http://www.youtube.com/user/mydirtyoldboots. And you can do all this from any page on the website - http://DirtyOldBoots.com

I'll see you when I see you. Have fun