Travel

Rajasthan means the land of the kings and it is no surprise that the place is bejewelled with a host of forts, many of which are the most impressive hill Forts. In fact, many of these hill…

Odisha is as popular as the land of Lord Jagannath and a state with a rich cultural and artistic heritage as for some amazing wildlife sanctuaries and national parks. One of them is the…

Fagu presents a 360-degree mountain view encompassing clusters of houses clinging to green hillside slopes, with apple orchards and potato growing terraced fields around them and conifer…

Bhubaneswar: Deep in the hinterland Odisha, and several miles away from the nearest town Titlagarh and 104 km from Balangir, is a rocky outcrop between the small villages of Ranipur and…

Lucknow is not on the usual tourist map. You end up there only if you have relatives there or some business interest. I went there for another reason. Something that is not entirely usual…

Palelom Beach, South Goa At the southernmost end of Goa, almost bordering the southern Indian state of Karnataka is the picture perfect beach of Palelom. The beaches of South Goa are,…

Garhwal region of Uttarakhand is the favourite of Lord Shiva. The region of Garhwal is raw, tough, wild and beautiful, and this is how Shiva loves it. Where ever you go in Garhwal, you…

Rishikesh, the place where the holy Ganga river descends from the Himalayas and finally enters the plains, is popular with a whole lot of people looking for a whole lot of different things.…

Shimla, the erstwhile summer capital of British India (officially recognised in 1864) and the present capital of the northern Indian State of Himachal Pradesh still retains its colonial…

Ladakh, a land of mesmerizing beauty I went to Ladakh, that rugged, desolate and yet astonishingly beautiful part of India, in the year 2005. That was the time when Ladakh (a high…