By Xue Wei Mak. When I was 23 years old, I quit my job as a corporate event executive, and headed to India with my backpack; the first item on my bucket list. Two months later, waiting at the airport, homebound, I found myself counting my blessings to have not only survived, but grown to
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By Kamalika Roy. In a country of 1.1 billion people, it is almost incredulous to find virgin white sand beaches. But these do exist. Far from the human hustle and bustle, tranquility still prevails, the water is crystal clear, and the sands endless and smooth without a pinch of litter. Savor this list and don’t let word travel too far
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By Namita Kulkarni. If places were books, Netala would be that rare timeless classic sitting on a hard-to-reach shelf, in a less-frequented aisle of a quaint bookshop that only incorrigible bookworms make their way to. No snazzy cover jacket to grab eyeballs, no stellar reviews announced on its back cover, no catchy tagline, no hashtag-endorsed popularity,
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By Ekta Bhatnagar. Ferozepur, often called the land of martyrs, has gotten lost somewhere in our history books. It is here that Shaheed Bhagat Singh, one of India’s greatest freedom fighters, was buried. And here that parts of the famous Bollywood movie, Bhag Milkha Bhag, were shot. The real charm of Ferozepur though, is that
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By Namita Kulkarni. While I’m the last person to find it at all ‘curious’ that a woman would travel alone, I’ve been at the receiving end of a lot of curious, even baffled, looks for gladly pulling off the apparent double whammy of being a single female and travelling alone. I’ve been regarded as a
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By Amrita Das. I took the longer route to Bodhgaya. Flew in to Patna, drove for 4 hours through thick winter fog and finally reached the sleepy town of Bodhgaya. When I stepped out for a short walk in the morning, I found myself confused. Had I reached Tibet instead of Bihar? Bodhgaya attracts many
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By Elita Almeida You’re telling me that you didn’t stay in a hotel but lived in someone’s house? Did you know those people? That is a response I often receive from friends and colleagues who hear about my travels. That was probably me a while ago too. I had been enamoured by the idea of homestays
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Compiled by Shivya Nath. A young new generation of Indian travellers are taking on the country – and the world – unearthing one best-kept secret at a time. They walk, they climb, they row, they go on adventures. They sample the food, the culture, the music, and dig out stories in places that no guidebooks
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By Shraddha Panicker. Somewhere below a pointless flyover in one of Punjab’s haphazardly growing cities, two girls with backpacks were doing something that anyone hardened by years of big city life is adept at. They were trying to hail an auto-rickshaw. Unfazed by a few who quoted inflated fares, they stood their ground until an
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