Say a morning prayer in Old Goa
The Portuguese arrived in Goa around 500 years ago and left their unique footprints. Their...
Dwarka – of Krishna and Meera
A long, tiring drive across flat, featureless and arid landscape of west Gujarat brought me to Dwarka. The last stage of drive from Rajkot...
Olaulim: Your own private space in Goa
It’s eight in the morning and I am driving past the misty coastline of Goa into the lush green terrain of Pompurpa, riding past verdant...
Jodhpur: Drenched in blue
An intensely romantic city, filled with history and memories of a glorious past, Jodhpur rides high...
Hippest cafes in Hauz Khas
New Delhi’s Hauz Khas village is a bit scruffy, with its narrow, over-crowded alleys, but it is also the funkiest place in the capital...
Jungle in my backyard: Mumbai
Yes, I am talking about a real jungle and not the clichéd concrete jungle, which has mostly become synonymous with our cities. Wherever...
Grace in wood: Padmanabhapuram Palace
Austere aesthetics, monochrome design, wooded architecture and minimalism in interior décor are...
Dine with Giraffes in the Manor
A loud screech of our car wheels and the scrunching of gravel beneath it announced our arrival. The sun settled on the manor draped with...
A wild charm – Lewa Safari Camp
I descended from the ‘green capital of the sun’ as Nairobi is fondly called to the lush greens of the Lewa wildlife conservancy,...
Lewa: Handpicked Africa…(Part II)
In the next morning safari, I was shamelessly focused on spotting the big cats. Tom wasn’t...