Category archive for ‘Travelogue’ 
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Magic of the mountains
On a bike ride to Bhutan, Sankar Sridhar finds warmth everywhere, from the hot ema datse to the friendly locals, besides breathtaking views.
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Where Krishna resides
In Pauri-Garhwal district in Uttarakhand, there exists a deity who has the power to fulfill all wishes — Danda Nagraja. SUNIL THAPLIYAL visits the temple and finds out the story behind its being.
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Crowded City’s Solitary Fort
Khursheed Wani visits Koh-e-Maran, the only existing fort on Hari Parbat Hills in Srinagar and finds that though the State Archaeology Department has done loads to restore the monument, a lot still needs to be taken care of.
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House on the hill
By Saurabh Tankha
There are many reasons why there may be hill stations and hill stations but one Dalhousie, the retreat of a British Governor-General during his numerous survey of India trips in the Himalayas. For one, it continues to be as enchanting, story-book and idyllic, gift wrapped neatly between the Dhauladhar and Pir Panjal ranges, [...] -
Farming Tourists
From milking cows to having an organic lunch and puffing a hookah, Amardeep Banerjee goes local on a visit to farmhouses in Haryana
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An Israeli’s Jerusalem
Recently my husband and I went to Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) for four days. Foreign tourists don’t come much to Yerushalayim nowadays and the hotels are offering discount rates to the daring Israeli souls who still travel from their safer home towns to the capital. Hotels which were once exorbitantly and notoriously expensive are now within reach of the average consumer. So, we went to our capital city for a four-day research and prayer marathon and stayed in a hotel which a year ago would be beyond our wildest dreams of being able to afford. Doreen Dotan writes more.
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Old is Gold
A sea coast capital and a rare jewel in the north of Europe in the Gulf of Finland is Tallinn. As one of the most completely preserved medieval cities in Europe, it features on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Prakash Dubey takes us through its history.
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An Ode Called Amritsar
If you live in Lahore and choose to go North-West, you will be in Gujrawala in about an hour’s time. And if you move from Lahore to the East, on the same Grand Trunk (GT) Road which Sher Shah Suri, the Afghan Warrior-King, carved out, in about the same time you could be standing in Amritsar—except for the ordeal of crossing the Indo-Pakistan border. Ammara Ahmad writes more.
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A jewel among stones
The Dholpur Palace has stood the test of time, surviving socialism, the excesses of effete royalty and the Chambal bandits, says Bharati Motwani.
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Enroute Canals
Doon was once a valley with many canals flowing in it. But now that the Himalayan town has become the Capital of the newly carved Uttarakhand State, roads are being widened by covering the nahars. Jaskiran Chopra talks about the EC Road that derived its name from the now covered East Canal