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For romantic travellers, there can be no better time to experience Delhi than during the month of Ramzan. The smog-jaded capital wraps itself in winking gold lights and the aroma of festive delicacies, undergoing a Cinderellaesque switch…
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Planning a trip to Southeast Asia and looking for the best beaches in Vietnam!?  Well you’ve come to the right place, because I’ve got ya covered.  When you think of Vietnam, what do you picture? Is it a city like Ho…
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Lately, my morning tea ritual looks like this. I fill my infuser with a measured amount of tea leaves—usually masala chai and occasionally, green tea. Straying away from the regular ginger tea with milk, I dip the leaves inside a cup of…
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I am sitting with my morning cup of chai in Kutch’s Chobari village when a flock of demoiselle cranes fly into the open space right in front of me. It feels like I have my own little bird sanctuary in this secluded part of Gujarat. These…
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In the misty early morning light, surf curled on the white swathe of Bhogave beach. Hermit crabs scurried away at our approach and fishing boats bobbed on the sapphire-blue sea, like a ghostly armada sailing to the edge of the world.…
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Our Panna is quite a dry forest. The green you see now will wither soon,” 20-year-old Iden Lal smiles at me as we walk across the dry deciduous expanse just within the territorial area of Panna National Park. What I notice first is how…
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Dear 28-year-old me, We haven’t hung out in a while. At 68, I could blame the knees, but really it’s the foggy brain that seems to be always leaking out of things to remember. And by that I don’t mean bulbs that need fixing or the names of…
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It’s that time of year when everything is bathed in a warm, fuzzy, honey glow and there’s a sweet fragrance in the air. That might be partly due to summer setting in across India but it’s also because the best (and India’s national) fruit…
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Thousands of tourists from India and around the world have many reasons to come to Kashi, often called the world’s oldest living city. Some come to experience the “real India”, some to wash their sins away, and yet others come here to die…
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The summers of my childhood were defined by three things: books, mangoes and power cuts. Often the three would come together and I would eat through plates of raspuri and langda, while sprawled on the floor reading by the light of a…
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What’s the Most Scenic Trek on Koh Chang? People who hike to the top of hills on Koh Chang are often disappointed when they get there as the views are blocked by trees.  The trek up Khao Laem, in the southeast of Koh Chang…
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Think imposing palaces and gigantic forts, and Rajasthan comes to mind. Though Udaipur City Palace, Jaipur’s Hawa Mahal, Jodhpur’s Mehrangarh or the Chittorgarh fort are among the more popular ones, there’s one that deserves equal…
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