Tarkarli

 

They will tell you

Beyond this frontier, lies paradise:

Goa – The colours of Bohemia

The aroma of the sea

The suntan warmth

That chilled beer on the sands

 

But, what if the gateway

Was paradise too?

An invisible border divides the mind

For Tarkarli watches quietly –

With its rivers, houseboats

Coral seas and Sindhudurg

 

It smiles –

That rustic coconut calm

Is not for the mindless tourist

It is for the quiet nomad

Exploring, not following

Discovering, not ticking

 

There, at the very tip

You can choose to melt

In bucolic silence;

The journey down south cut short

But what is infinity less one step

The winds blow even at Tarkarli…

 

19^th Feb, 2026

 

Tarkarli lies at the very end of Maharashtra just before Goa – while tourists flock to Goa, the beauty of this gateway is just as mesmerising