

Girish Rathna
- Oct 25
- 2 min
Hyundai to Green Day!!!
Woke up early one morning, nothing planned, pulled a pair of jeans and a tee, sunglasses to complete the look, picked up my car keys and...


Girish Rathna
- Oct 4
- 3 min
Temple Run!!!
Everything happens at the will of God, they say. Even a blade of grass swaying to the gentle breeze in a field on a summer afternoon...


Girish Rathna
- Sep 20
- 1 min
Porsche affair!!!
Every time I travel abroad, one of the many things I usually do is take pictures of supercars. Regardless of how busy or how on the clock...


Girish Rathna
- Sep 6
- 2 min
Style!!!
Abu Dhabi, the capital of UAE is one of the wealthiest cities on the planet. This is the city that introduced ATMs for gold bars where...


Girish Rathna
- Aug 30
- 3 min
Monkey Business!!!
If you want to uncover, you have to go undercover. So it seems, that if you want to understand ‘monkey business’, you have to act like a...


Girish Rathna
- Jul 12
- 6 min
Creative-Bridge!!!
The above pic was that ‘now’ moment when I took the picture on my camera seconds before forwarding my foot to step on the iconic...


Girish Rathna
- Jun 28
- 2 min
Days of yore!!!
Remember, the most morally corrupt, morally nasty and morally vile people are the ones who are quick to demand morality. On the seesaw of...


Girish Rathna
- Jun 21
- 2 min
Resurrection!!!
Resurrection - Yeah, sounds like a slogan James Bond would throw in a movie. I don’t know the exact thought process as to why I chose...


Girish Rathna
- Jun 7
- 2 min
Man vs. Wild!!!
It all started when I was like 22, watching Discovery Channel on the TV when I saw a man trying to squeeze himself inside a dead camel’s...


Girish Rathna
- Apr 19
- 2 min
Team-spirit!!!
On one normal sunny morning, randomly planned by one of my friends, an eventful day unfolded. Within a few hours, I was in a sports...


Girish Rathna
- Mar 29
- 3 min
War on Good (looking)!!!
The above pic was when I was relaxed in a calm serenity on an island by a yacht, not far from the southern coast of Singapore. One of the...


Girish Rathna
- Mar 15
- 2 min
Kneel on seabed!!!
Sailing away from the shore, just a GPS to track our location at sea, with a professional team of divers and one sailor, the above pic...


Girish Rathna
- Feb 22
- 3 min
Finding Yeti…!!!
Setting the timer on my Canon EOS, letting it sit haphazardly on the frozen earth at ground level, no tripod, no camera man, no pro zoom...


Girish Rathna
- Dec 28, 2022
- 1 min
Silent walk on Christmas Eve!!!
A silent walk through the city on Christmas Eve, I came across lights in its various forms. I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy...


Girish Rathna
- Jul 6, 2022
- 1 min
Riverside!!!
“Who hears the rippling of rivers will not utterly despair of anything.” - Henry David Thoreau Just sitting by the riverside, the above...


Girish Rathna
- Jun 29, 2022
- 1 min
Queen’s seat!!!
Wonderfully engineered and crafted with red sandstone, I am short of words to express this ancient structure’s magnificence. Yet, I can...


Girish Rathna
- Jun 22, 2022
- 1 min
Too little, too late!!!
Have said it before, say it again – “When you know you have already touched the top, barking dogs don’t bother you”. I am not much of an...


Girish Rathna
- Feb 23, 2022
- 1 min
Lord Girish Rathna!!!
Did you know? Recently, I legally and officially became a Lord of Scotland? In all virtue of the Universe’s blessing, with a little...


Girish Rathna
- Feb 2, 2022
- 1 min
Hello World!
Hello World, this is my first post since penkcil.com changed to a new server.


Girish Rathna
- Dec 25, 2021
- 1 min
Christmas 21...!!!
A Very, Merry, Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year. Spending an evening next to a beautifully decorated tree is refreshing after an...