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Orissa has a special place in my life. I have spent the best part of my life in Bhubaneswar – the initial years of my married life. I stayed there for...

While searching for details about the place one can land up in a fix. In maximum tour guides, instead of projecting the places of visit about the...

With its plunging pine-clad valleys and distant mountain views, Dalhousie is another of those cool hill retreats left behind by the British. Since...

Hill stations have always been classic summer getaway options to escape being fried like the proverbial egg and get baked in the scorching sun. A...

On one of my annual vacations, I happened to visit Kerala, the southern state of India filled with excitement and serenity. And I must confess that it...

An Arabian summer is not ideal for a vacation. It lends to visuals of trudging through red sand dunes and empty roads, dragging luggage, sweat...

Mahabaleshwar is one of the highest, largest and most popular hill stations in western India. Set on a plateau, about 4,440 ft high, Mahabaleshwar...

The Monpa people are hardworking. Their gods are peaceful. Their toil leaves them little time for miseducation. Their women work on the roads. Their...

If Gulmarg is a popular hill station in the hills of the north, there is a similar sounding Gulbarga town in the plains down south in Karnataka that...

We missed Gagar, at almost a blink of an eye, driving up the windy road, cradled on either side with the dense Maheshkhan forest. I popped my head out...

It is winter and time to head south, to take respite from the chill of North India. While the Andaman & Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean have...

A place as familiar as the Queen of Hills needs no introduction, even if some of us haven’t been there. Breaking away from the humdrum of everyday...