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How I ended up on the Socotra island

I first came to know of the Socotra island when I was in school. A brilliant TV commercial featuring the […]

April 12, 2020

“It is not down in any map, True places never are” – Herman Melville. This is completely applicable to Socotra […]

April 11, 2020

Horton Plains, with the highlight of the World’s End, is one of the best side trips from the tea hill […]

February 13, 2020

The dramatic precipice of the World’s End is located halfway of a 9 kilometers hiking route through the Horton Plains […]

February 12, 2020

One of my most beautiful memories of Sri Lanka is of the painted cave temple of Dambulla. I liked the […]

February 8, 2020

The access to the Taj Mahal (at least the one we took) was so horrible that by the time we […]

January 5, 2020

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

January 4, 2020

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

January 3, 2020

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

January 2, 2020

The next morning dawned bright as a new coin and Suzdal looked glorious. I woke up to the sight of […]

October 9, 2019