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Contributed to the Times of India @Home book, a repository of homestays across the country. I reviewed and wrote about the South India homestays for this book.

Temple Trips Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh is home to a wealth of temples, both ancient and modern, living and archaeological. Temple bells, incense, flowers, holy rivers and throngs of devotees characterize many temples in Chhattisgarh, a land of the devout. In others, the centuries have done their job, leaving behind just the essence of spirituality amid ruins and ancient carvings. […]

Filmi Escapes

Contributed to the Filmi Escapes Lonely Planet Guidebook that takes the traveller through a Bollywood trail in different parts of the country. This is a first-time book for India! How often we must’ve wanted to travel to every place we’ve seen in the movies. The Ladakh of Aamir and Kareena in 3 Idiots, the Kasauli of […]

Best Escapes Hills

Contributed to the Best Escapes Hills book for regions in the South of India. The valleys, deserts and palm-lined beaches are all well and good, but it can get hot down there. India’s princes and British colonials long used cool mountain towns as refuges from the heat and today the hill stations still have lush forests […]

Spiritual Trips

Uttar Pradesh offers unrivalled opportunities for the spiritual travellers with more then a handful of destinations focussed around strong divine ties. Be it the Buddha circuit from Sarnath in the east to Kushinagar and Shrawasti bordering Nepal or the Sangam of the rivers Yamuna, Ganga and the mythical Saraswati at Allahabad, the state caters to […]

Agra & Braj

The irony of the two distinct Hindu and Muslim vibes of the Braj and Agra circuit of Uttar Pradesh are unavoidable as you hop between monuments and temples. Even though the two regions are segregated by thousands of years, the undertone is inimitable. However, this observation is only limited to the general ambience of the […]

Food Guide

Good food is close to divinity. In Varanasi and places around, you are closer to heaven, not only because of the spiritual legacy of the region, but the mouth-watering local food. Like the region itself, the food here is a fusion of generous flavours, unabashedly rich creamy dishes and characterized by a myriad regional variations. […]