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Divyansh Thakur is a Research Wing Member at Speaking Archaeologically since October 2017 This post is an account of the author's one day trip to Garli, and, is not, by any means the result of a scientific expedition. It is, thus, rid of the jargon, profundity and, as Mark Twain would say, the 'impressive incomprehensibility' of scientific works and, in turn, gives an anecdote of what should be realistically called a picnic. For months, the thought of heading out and exploring the cobbled streets of this small hamlet in Kangra had been pestering me—for a place, so close to home seemed elusively distant. The remedy to it came in form of three battered up scooters, and in companions who did not yet understand the intricacies of Archaeology or the meaning of it. They were all lured in by the irresistible charm of a DSLR camera. I guess we were all a bunch of yokels back home, the object of our desires being fancy little devices, which were, prior to contemporary age, ...

                                              Tuesday, 27 October, 2015 Dear Diary, I am in Goa, at last (which explains the absence on the writing front!) At Aguada Fort We reached Goa on the 25th and I've been busy shopping and exploring the beaches, it's not a historical trip so that is what we do most of the time. Today, though, Aguada Fort was on the itinerary and I was all excited and thrilled about it, of course,  because of my unending love for historic places. The ulterior motive though, is because it is my first week volunteering for Speaking Archaeologically and  I am the only one, to have taken an exemption from the very first task because of the trip. I felt awful, but then my task in charge, Shriya Gautam, gave me a list of places I could gather information about, for SA and make up for the exemption.  Aguada Fort happened to be o...