How to Travel Better in 2021: Plan a Workation

Enter, Curated Workations India Cottages overlooking the Panchachuli range of the Himalayas, wooden cabins along Tarkarli…

How to Travel Better in 2021: Revive Small Businesses

Finding Purulia’s Magic Masks West Bengal Hugging the Ajodhya Hills in Purulia district, amid rust-red soil…

How to Travel Better in 2021: Minimal Footprint Journeys

Try Cycle: Four Trips for Sustainable Sojourns Ethical adventures in the Sahyadris Maharashtra While the Himalayas…

How to Travel Better in 2021: Restore and Reconnect

In a Chaukori State of Mind Uttarakhand My friends and I were crestfallen to see black…

How to Travel Better in 2021: Eat Hyperlocal

Hearty Fare at Hari Bhavanam Tamil Nadu Outside Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore often seems to be obscured…

How to Travel Better in 2021: Travel Slow

Slow-Trekking Through the Western Ghats India The slowest form of travel has got to be walking…

How to Travel Better in 2021: The India List

The year of the pandemic hasn’t been kind. It trapped the elderly couple that saved all…

Readers’ Responses: Travel Spots & Resolutions for 2021

The year 2020 has been a tough one for the world of travel—plans halted, tickets gone…

Coronavirus News Alert | COVID-19 Negative Test Report Needed to Enter Maharashtra from These Four States

As the post-festival surge of COVID-19 cases continues in India, fears of a second wave are…

Readers’ Responses: Where to Travel this Festive Season

As we swing into the final leg of the year—and with it, the highly awaited festival…

In Shimla, A Home of the Hills

At first glance, Chapslee resembles an old English site. Ivy climbs the stone walls of the…

Where Do India’s Top Chefs Dine on Their Day Off?

Ladles clink against cast iron woks, knives slice through crisp greens, marinated meats sizzle on griddles.…

In Photos | Kolkata Celebrates a Pandemic Durga Puja

The five-day annual revelry that engulfs Kolkata come October is upon us—Durga Puja, when the City…

Merry in Masks: Inside Kolkata’s Pandemic Puja

Puja eshe gechhe. Puja is here. Even in a year marked by the ravages of pandemic,…

100th Issue Special: For the Love of Road Trips

25. A South Indian Odyssey At 19, I was sure of three things: I was a…

100th Issue Special: For the Love of Kind Strangers

70. Berth of a Memory Six months into my first job at a publishing house almost…

100th Issue Special: For the Love of Inner Journeys

84. Sweethearts in Rajasthan When my wife and I whisked away on our honeymoon, we ditched…

A Five-Star Sanctum Atop Dharamshala

There’s fresh air, and then there’s the pristine whiff of the Dhauladhar mountain range overlooking Dharamshala:…

Eight Indian Beaches Awarded the Blue Flag Ecolabel

The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MOEFCC) announced on Sunday, October 11, that the…

Readers’ Responses: The Call of the Road

As the weather turns chilly and wanderlust kicks in, one can almost hear the road calling.…

Travel Alert | Sixteen Countries that Indians can Visit Right Now

In late March, when India went into coronavirus lockdown, the government suspended all international flight operations.…

Picture Perfect in Mumbai’s Film Museum

The hand-painted horse came to life as I spun the barrel for the umpteenth time. I…

News Alert | Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh Reopen to Tourists

On July 2, the hilly state of Uttarakhand announced the lifting of all travel restrictions, both…

A Walk Back in India’s History

Seventy-three years seems like a long time. Yet for those who lived through the euphoria of…

Shantanu Moitra: Mountains, Music and More

During an interview with music composer Shantanu Moitra, strains of afternoon azan filter in through the…

Partner Content | Corona India launches the Rediscover Paradise Campaign in partnership with Thrillophilia

After months of being confined to our homes, most of us are waiting with bated breath…

Partner Content | Monsoon Magic in the Western Ghats with the vivo X50 Pro

The Western Ghats are wisened, old, and apologetically wild. Come monsoon, a long lease of life-giving…

Partner Content | Into #TheUneXplored Western Ghats with the vivo X50 Pro

A seemingly impenetrable wilderness greeted Sandesh Kadur at Agumbe, Nagarhole and Kabini in Karnataka. Once he…

Gangsta’s Paradise: Searching for Shantaram’s Colaba

On a Sunday morning, I normally would have taken the ‘fast’ train down to South Bombay,…

Partner Content | Unseen Goa with the vivo X50 Pro

Beyond the sun and sand of Goa’s famed beaches lies a world of treasure in the…