By Ram and Reshma. Most of us earn a living so we can enjoy our passion in our leisure hours, and we were no exception to the rule. We both worked for a dream company - Google, had a significant disposable income, worked hard by day, and lived the high life by evening and on weekends. Yet there was something missing, like we were living it up only peripherally. Deep within, we were not able to ..read more

By Achin Gupta. Mehrangarh fort dominates its skyline and houses are painted in a distinct blue colour to beat the heat. Yes, this is Jodhpur, the second most popular city of Rajasthan after Jaipur. Jodhpur is truly majestic, both in architecture and food, and a depiction of Rajasthan's royal culture.  These are unedited moments of this lovely city from my lens. *** 1. THE BLUE CITY ..read more

By Amrita Das. I have travelled long distances, let my eyes sleep.  Let my soul endure and my mind escape me.  Let me listen to the rain of Goa and feel no further. Moving to a beach destination wasn’t ideal for me. I’d rather be on the foothills of a mountain range or lie under a starlit night by a lake. But when the monsoons played hide-and-seek with Goa, I was convinced there is ..read more

Compiled by Sifti Dhillon. Ladakh is majestic, remote and on many bucket lists for its pristine beauty. For centuries, the locals lived in this cold mountain desert in the Trans-Himalayas without contact with the rest of India. Tourism gave people access to roads, education and a booming local economy, but also tempered with traditional cultural and environmental practices. So when you ..read more

By Sanjay Talukdar. In October, I put on magic shoes and travelled to Tura, in the Garo Hills of Meghalaya, to celebrate Wangala aka the Hundred Drums Festival. A celebration of the annual crop harvest and the charming way of life in the northeastern Himalayas, Wangala sees the coming together of tribal groups to pay ode to their chief divinity, the Sun god. People young and old dress in ..read more

By Namita Kulkarni. If places were books, Netala would be that rare timeless classic sitting on a hard-to-reach shelf, in a less-frequented aisle of a quaint bookshop that only incorrigible bookworms make their way to. No snazzy cover jacket to grab eyeballs, no stellar reviews announced on its back cover, no catchy tagline, no hashtag-endorsed popularity, not even a shred of well-deserved ..read more

  Compiled by Shivya Nath. The smell of the first rain on earth often reminds me of A.R. Rehman's music. This must be the aroma of our soil that swells us with love for India. Anyone who has seen scorched barren summer landscapes transform into a lush countryside, or a thick mist engulf the backwaters, or the sea roar with delight, or anyone who has joined our farmers to dance in the rains ..read more

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By Namita Kulkarni. While I'm the last person to find it at all 'curious' that a woman would travel alone, I've been at the receiving end of a lot of curious, even baffled, looks for gladly pulling off the apparent double whammy of being a single female and travelling alone.  I’ve been regarded as a strange aberration by a good number of random strangers, who thought I was perfectly ..read more