Real India is still in the villages and viewed best from the highways. I spent a sizable chunk of 2013 travelling in the north and central regions of the country…
Bet you never knew Mr Robert Vadra is not exempt from paying toll. Am kidding, sure you knew.
Then, did you really? Know that the Gandhi in-law – unlike in airports…
Beckons you from afar
All the while I was in Kotwan I couldn’t shrug the queasy over safety of my car. My Red was parked right in the village square –…
Radha lives...a devotee at Vrindavan
Save the flirtatious cavorting the rest of it is still intact in Vrindavan. The guys are all Krishnas, women are Radhas and the cows a happy…
Die-hards of ‘Star Wars’ series getting into Darth Vader costume for premiere have always struck me as a bunch of losers. Then, I’ve done it myself – getting into ‘character’…
There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc café racer is one of them – but I want one anyway, and on some…
After telling me his story – from enfant terrible and Mall Road Romeo to successful farmer and responsible father and village oracle, he told me not to take his photograph…
Delhi – Agra – Gwalior – Orchha – Khajuraho is the hottest heritage circuit in the country. Starting with the Kosi Minars, mile stones from the Mughal era, along the…
A rose for Babur: The Aram Bagh
My heart, like the bud of the red, red rose
Lies fold within fold, aflame;
Would the breath of even a myriad springs
Blow my heart’s bud…