No matter how much I love the city or how hard I try to capture its flavours in one single post, Hyderabad is flat-out refusing to be captured by my words. So, here it is, another itty-bitty snippet on the home of the Nizams. Chowmahalla Palace – middle name, Grandeur An unexpected delight and an architectural jewel […]
Down the Rabbit Hole: 10 Italian villages for the perfect summer getaway.
Think of Italy, and you think of Quixotic men, flowing wine, sumptuous food, candlelit dinners at quaint roadside cafes and a city that is a living, breathing part of history. We know the country for its romance and architectural beauty, but it turns out that there are remote, undiscovered places in Italy that are way […]
To Lucknow for One Wedding and 20 Plates of Tunday Kababs.
A month’s a long time to stay away from writing about my travels, but after a crazy wedding bang in the middle of November, I’ve had little time to breathe normally – let alone blog. But here I am, determined to write about a fascinating city called Lucknow and how it added extra pounds to […]
No-brainer destinations: Lepakshi
Sunday dawned bright and sky-blue, and decided that she wanted to whisk me away into the pages of history. There are untold cultural riches, she whispered, stories in stone that you’ve never seen before, and a way of life that’s long forgotten. And so I found myself on the way to Lepakshi – a small […]
Going back in time: Gulbarga and Bidar.
What makes some of us travellers? I prefer to believe that it’s genetic, even hereditary, although this may be an exception rather than a rule. Back in the day when I was a youngling and my grandfather was a civil engineer with the Indian Railways, he used to take us all on impromptu holidays at […]
