A train ride to rural Rajasthan
Many years ago on a cold winter’s night, I boarded a long distance train from the New Delhi Railway station. […]
India, Rajasthan, West
India, Maharashtra, West
My Mumbai Othello
Dry Mumbai mornings are always orange and hazy and the city becomes visible after 9. Ongoing construction projects, coastal mugginess […]
Goa, India
Tracing Portugal in Panjim
My last day in north Goa was spent watching a melon coloured sunset on the broad and calm Morjim beach. […]
Goa, India
Forts, shopping and Fonseca
My most favourite Goa activities based out of Anjuna were loitering at the weekly flea market and checking out Mario […]
India, Photo Essays, Rajasthan, Travel Extras, Trip Photos, West
Photo essay of my awesome Bundi trip
” The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust […]
India, Rajasthan, West
Bhil tribe, the bowmen of Rajasthan
When I was a little girl, my grandmother would tell me stories from the Ramayana. My favourite was the one […]
India, Rajasthan, West
The wild beauty of rural Bhilwara
Let me start by introducing the Bhilwara district of Rajasthan to you. Imagine softly rounded scrub-covered hills cradling a shallow […]
India, Rajasthan, West
Bundi stepwells and the story of a heartbroken queen
For a town as small as a dinner plate, Bundi abounds with stepwells. There are as many as 50 Bundi […]
India, Photo Essays, Rajasthan, Travel Extras, Trip Photos, West
Photo essay of the beautiful Bundi frescoes
Some of Rajasthan’s finest miniature and mural paintings were produced around Bundi and Kota. These two towns of Rajasthan were […]
India, Rajasthan, West
Bundi paintings, a school of charming Rajasthani miniatures
Not many people know that I paint and even fewer are in the secret that my specialty was miniature painting. […]