Tag: off beat

Chhattisgarh

The endless green of swaying paddy fields, the shimmer of sinuous rivers clinging to silted banks, dark stretches of verdant forests and torrential waterfalls gushing down cliffs, this is tailor-made for offbeat travel

The Indian Festival Calendar: Nov–Dec

Avid travellers will know that sometimes you need time off from stunning vistas, riversides, mountaintops and rolling hills. Most look, instead, for cultural immersion. And there’s no better place to try some elbow hustle than at the festivals of the country. The history, colours and the celebratory vibe in the air only add to the […]

Shades Of Green

Two words suffix the Fringe Ford logo  – ‘Get Lost’. And lost you are, at this 1912 British styled cottage in the middle of a 520 acre coffee estate, in a faraway land of drooping vines draped over trees, the thick undergrowth of coffee and cardamom plantations and a million shades of green. A veritable […]

The virgin beaches of Karnataka The Alternative

While there is reticent charm in the fact that the West Coast of Karnataka has been relatively unexplored by travel buffs, it is slowly crawling up as one of the top destinations for water sports. Unperturbed by the cultural and spiritual milieu of places like Udipi, Murudeshwar and Gokarna, these adventure hideouts are tucked away […]

A Date With History

My pictures from Nagaland substantiated an article by Sangita Thakur for the Travel Update section on India Now.

New Year Hideouts

New Year Getaways from Bangalore Now that the earth is still spinning smoothly on its axis and its end has been averted, go ahead and plan your New Year getaway as your travel instincts please. For those who live in Bangalore, there are plenty of options to celebrate spilling over to the next year. Be […]