We turned left off SG Highway past gleaming glass and steel buildings and entered a neighbourhood that seemed to be stuck in time, wedged somewhere between the past and the future. We drove past camel…
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A good way to instil curiosity about India’s past in a child’s mind is by taking them to some of the magnificent monuments around the country. Belonging to different…
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It’s the time of the year, when people flock to Kutch to experience the splendid spectacle of the white Rann. Almost everyone who does so, happens to head out to the…
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My nephew and I joined a small group at the Swaminarayan Temple in Ahmedabad one warm Sunday morning, for the much acclaimed heritage walk that’s conducted by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation.…
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I have been travelling to Ahmedabad since I was a little child and every trip has their own special memories. Any holiday is incomplete without food and on my many trips…
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A Gujarati thali is like the great big Indian wedding – everything is over the top and in your face. It satiates you but leaves you also looking for the first…
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When Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi met with the Obamas everything that he said, did, ate and gave (as gifts) was carefully scrutinized and widely discussed. Given that India is a…
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A group of children were playing and a young girl was making rotis on a wooden chulla as our car came to a stop besides a cluster of kaccha pucca houses…
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Kings and queens, and their royal lives have always fascinated me! A visit to any palace or museum only stoke my interest in their mysterious lives – much admired, envied and…
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A recent trip to Kutch that I announced with great fanfare about being my first solo trip, wasn’t the first time I had travelled to a new place alone. I was researching…