wrote 1 year ago: You left India as a young man. How often have you returned? Regularly since my association with the … more →
wrote 2 years ago: redBus You can book all your transport in India online these days: planes, trains and cars—sort of—b … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Two-and-a-half kilometres of beach all to myself. A waiter from the restaurant trudges across the sa … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Arzoo After he and Jack Smith sold Hotmail to Microsoft for 400 mill, Sabeer Bhatia started a new co … more →
wrote 2 years ago: I’m floating on my back, in a blood warm-sea. Land is a thin smudge on the horizon. There’s not a so … more →
wrote 3 years ago: “To give on paper any adequate idea of the Boondi-ki-Mahal is impossible. Jeypore Palace may be call … more →
wrote 3 years ago: The cantankerous bits first. The name flirts with the truth; Om Beach is five winding, up-hill-down- … more →
wrote 3 years ago: http://www.gonomad.com/ GoNOMAD says its focus is “alternative travel.” Or, as they say in another p … more →
wrote 3 years ago: Rule One. Don’t ask for Bombay Biriyani in Bombay. It’s one of those things like Chicken Tikka Masal … more →
wrote 3 years ago: If you can make one heap of all your winnings, and risk it on a week in the hills, would Pachmarhi r … more →
wrote 4 years ago: Fifty thousand years ago – give or take a few centuries – a rather large chunk of rock came hurtling … more →
wrote 4 years ago: Peter Griffin loses track of time on the Barak Valley Express The monsoon, like any sensible travell … more →
wrote 5 years ago: Bom Bahia, “good bay,” Portuguese colonisers named it, before packaging it with the princess Catheri … more →
wrote 3 years ago: Ran as one of two articles on the subject. Do get your hands on the piece that ran alongside about s … more →
wrote 3 years ago: Our passion for the monsoon took a bit of a beating last year. There’s something about 944 millimetr … more →
wrote 4 years ago: New and Secondhand Bookshop A hundred years ago, Jamalbhai Ratansi, who ran a business in the raddi … more →
wrote 5 years ago: Peter Griffin rises at noon to amble along the holiday coast on rented wheels It feels strange to be … more →
wrote 5 years ago: A year or so ago, a friend lunched at Britannia with his mentor, a famous film director. The mentor, … more →
wrote 5 years ago: Wankaner The sun which services this part of the world has been up for a while now. Its customary vi … more →