For city dwellers, silence is a rare commodity. And quietude was what I was looking for on a weekend trip to Maachli, a farm stay in Vengurla in Maharashtra’s southwestern district…
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Having a child forces you to get out of your comfort zone and see and do things differently. Before we had Anika, my husband and I had lived in Mumbai for…
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An elderly woman deftly strung jasmine buds into garlands at her flower stall outside the Kasba Ganpati temple. She looked up at us occasionally—a motley group of individuals exploring the older…
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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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As soon as I entered the Sachkhand Hazur Sahib gurudwara in Nanded, I felt as if I had been swept away from the heartland of Marathwada and transported straight to Punjab.…
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My trip to Nanded in Marathawada has to be one of the shortest trips I have ever been on. I took the Devagiri Express on Friday night, reached Nanded in the…
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Food is such an integral part of travel and eating local food is one of the best ways of getting an insight into local life and culture. India is a continent…
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It was just pure simple coincidence that we were visiting Pune in the thick of the 10 day Ganapathi festival that’s celebrated with great gusto across the state of Maharashtra, as…
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Its strange where inspiration to write comes from! Last night the electricity suddenly went away, which is very unusual in Bombay. So we shifted from our room to our daughter’s room…
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Kayani Bakery’s Shrewsbury biscuits feature on almost every traveler’s must get hold off list when they visit Pune, but another Maharashtrian delicacy also deserves to feature besides it. Crispy, crunchy, spicy,…