Jungle in my backyard: Mumbai
Yes, I am talking about a real jungle and not the clichéd concrete jungle, which has mostly become...
Grace in wood: Padmanabhapuram Palace
Austere aesthetics, monochrome design, wooded architecture and minimalism in interior décor are some qualities we don’t usually...
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...
Lewa: Handpicked Africa…(Part II)
In the next morning safari, I was shamelessly focused on spotting the big cats. Tom wasn’t enthused, he knew cats are elusive, but out in...
Lewa: Handpicked Africa…
The knee high dry grass glistened like burnished gold as first light stretched across the hills. The sky exploded into brilliant shades of...
Khonoma: The land out there…
This historic Angami – Naga village was the site of two ferocious Anglo – Naga war in 1879 –...
Majuli: A disappearing island
Fondly tucked between the sister rivers Subansiri and Kherketia and nursed by the mighty Brahmaputra, lies a landscape of Majuli, simply...
Tales from a headhunters’ land
Conversing with a nonagenarian is like collecting some pages off the calendar or redrawing some history from a person who barely remembers...
Camping with lions in Masai Mara– II
From the beginning, I was sure, day 2 was going to be as exciting as day 1. We had by now, tick...
