Evil deeds The charlatans in Kerala didn’t need toadeaters; the people were too gullible to doubt or too nice to question the power of their potions and mantras. ‘Chathan Seva…
This year’s edition of Wayanad Splash – a genuine effort to promote rain tourism – takes off on July 12. Be there if serious off-roading, dirt biking or mud football…
There was Malabar. And there was the rest of Kerala.
A landowner relative used to tell us he was going to Malabar and would be gone for weeks, sometimes months.…
Yes, we have been travelling even before they were vague strokes on the drawing board. And yes, we will continue to travel even if we do not get to lay…
Stormy dark clouds piloted an inclement weather. Slogans of dissension rippled over the backwater from hundreds of fisherfolk who gathered in their boats with families braving the monsoon shower. The…
(June is among the precious few months between life-stilling cold and landslide-prone monsoons in the Himalayas. The passes are open - well, most of them - and the snow is…
The Tharus, in a nutshell “The museum is the first place I go to when I visit a new country or town,” the effervescent Hilary Taylor told me outside Tharu…
Jhelum River decks up the Valley Since summer immemorial all of us from the rest of India have been heading to Kashmir for the salubrious climate guaranteed year-round by the…
Switzerland comes to India Yash Chopra, the romance goes, promised his wife during their honeymoon in Switzerland that every movie he made would have at least one song or scene…