Click to see Photo gallery and buy prints One of the most sought after wildlife holiday destinations in India, Kaziranga National park’s 430 square kilometer area is home to more than 2600 Indian one-horned rhinoceros, […]
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Kolkata – a city trying to break out of its past
Kolkata has always been a city with dual identities; a dirty city that isn’t worth visiting, a city trapped in dirt and a bygone era; or a regal city, a shining star that weaves the Indian cultural capital, a City of Joy with the British Raj thread. After two days in the city, my first visit, I am definitely leaning towards the latter definition but only by consciously overlooking the former. It is definitely a city that everyone should visit.
Meghalaya – abode of the clouds
India is a diverse country. The diversity stretches in landscape from the highest mountains in the world to the backwaters of Kerala, in architecture from the tombs of Mughals to the gopurams of the Cholas, […]
Coorg – flush with lush coffee
My wife’s dad’s ancestral home is Coorg. Thus she is one part Coorg. If you ever meet anyone from Coorg, notice how proud they are of that fact. There is always a rarefied air about […]
Bangalore – there’s much to see if you can dust it clean
Bangalore, or it should be called now, Benguluru, is the Silicon Valley of India. In 1983, Infosys setup an office in Bengaluru and over the next 30 years, other IT behemoths and multi-national corporations made […]
Incredible India – A to Z, a month long discovery of India
In 2003-2004, as I was learning photography, I was publishing a photo a day and was part of one of the first online photography communities at Pbase.com. Photography I realized was a combination of skill, […]
Mysore and Mandya – in search of Hoysala architecture
It had always been a wish, a plan to visit Mysore on our yearly trips to Bangalore, India. In undergrad, years ago, I had made a day trip to Mysore, but that was before my […]
Kerala – backwaters bring India to the forefront of tourism
Vayalar is the perfect, yet to be discovered, gateway to the backwaters of Kerala. A small village, a few kilometers from Cherthala, it is nestled cozily between Lake Vembanad and the Vayalar Kayal, part of […]
Mahabalipuram and Kancheepuram – Pallava Jewels
Guest Blogger: Shwetha Shrivatsa We set out to Mahabalipuram, from Chennai, with a lot of skepticism about touts and pesky beggars and vendors. But Kart and I were determined to visit another ‘World Heritage Site’ […]
The great Tamil Nadu road trip
Day 1: Our 4 day tour of Tamil Nadu started with the temple city of Madurai. It is situated on the banks of River Vaigai and was the capital city of the Pandya kings who […]
Karthik Raja 