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a woman on the agra highway
India, North, Uttar Pradesh

A winter road trip to Agra

My first trip to the Taj Mahal happened some years back when on a weekend my daughter and I ventured […]

January 4, 2020
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India, Uttar Pradesh

Itimad-ud-Daulah’s Tomb: The jewel box of Agra

On a sunny afternoon of 1893, an English archaeologist, Edmund William Smith from the Archaeological Survey of India stares at […]

January 3, 2020
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India, Uttar Pradesh

Mosaic love in Agra: Chini ka Rauza

Veiled gossiping women with babies on their hips stared at us as we walked by. The air was scented with […]

January 2, 2020
there are many hotels in nainital
India, North, Uttarakhand

Slow traveling in Nainital

In 2016, when I visited Venice alone with my newborn, I came back home feeling completely drained. After that, there […]

May 21, 2019
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Delhi, India, North, Photo Essays, Travel Extras, Trip Photos

An open love letter to Delhi in winter

Dear Dusty Delhi, How are you doing? Hope all the furor over smog has lessened and you are breathing easier? […]

February 20, 2019
A Kathputli Colony folk artist
Delhi, India, North

Puppeteers, magicians and fire eaters of Delhi

As long as I can remember, I have always objected to poverty or slum tourism and was not overly excited […]

August 9, 2017
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India, North, Punjab

The touch of golden solace

Jallianwala Bagh had left me shaken to the core and I had gladly made a bee line for our original […]

November 21, 2014
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India, North, Punjab

The elixir of Amritsar

The sun streamed on our faces like warm honey and we woke up to a proper Punjabi morning. The household, […]

November 19, 2014
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India, North, Punjab

The land of 5 Rivers

Scraggy rocky ravines of Aravalli Hills passed by in a smoky noon haze as my rickety volvo bus raced towards […]

November 16, 2014
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India, North, Uttar Pradesh

Red sandstone abandoned dream

The stupendous Buland Darwaza towered at 55 meters high and was built in 1576 to commemorate emperor Akbar’s victory in […]

June 7, 2014
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