Routes - Page 27

Mahabalipuram, or Mamallapuram, is a small town in Kancheepuram district in Tamil Nadu, on the Coromandel Coast, 60 km south of Chennai. Today’s...

Winter mornings in Chennai are nothing special for people like us who love the chilly air and colourful woollens. But passions die hard and so the...

Strange, indeed, are the ways of God. We often see children being born into a privileged family of kings, while others are born into utter squalor....

Stretching around 150 km (with the eastern-third part in China), at a height of 1400 feet, beside a remote army outpost in Ladakh, Pangong Tso’s...

The small, unassuming town of Thiruvannamalai, 85 km south of Vellore, is something of a hidden gem in a region overwhelmed by significant...

I boarded the Shivalik Express at Kalka station and started chugging slowly up the hills on the centuries old railway line. It was still early in the...

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...

It was August 18, 2009. The rain had cast its green spell all around and the forest was enveloped with heavy and tall undergrowth. With its three...

Give me a choice to choose a place to live for the rest of my life. An idyll by the lake, amidst flowers livening up my window; stone houses that seem...