Each January the Ahmedabad sky is filled with a host of kites during Uttarayan. For a few special days most everyone in the capital city ...

On a large parcel of land in a peninsula situated between Mumbai's Gorai Creek and the Arabian Sea, a gigantic dome rises into the s...

The Sundarbans are the largest continuous mangrove network on Earth, covering an area of over 6000 square kilometres. Two centuries ago, ...

The name  Mumbai  is derived from the goddess Mumba Devi. I went to visit the temple of the city's patron goddess with my cousin. The...

It seems whenever I am in Calcutta (now Kolkata) some kind of celebration is taking place. On my past few visits to the City of Joy I ha...

Multiply the number of people living in a city as populous as Mumbai by the number of their clothes that need to be washed every d...

I moved to Mumbai to help work towards eliminating educational inequity in India. Five hundred years ago, Sayyed Peer Haji Ali Shah Bukh...

The Elephanta Caves are the first underwhelming world heritage site that I have seen in India, having seen much better days. Although the...

One of my first outings while stationed in Bombay was to Alibag and its surroundings. An office girl from Chennai who accompanied me did ...

I rolled into Burhanpur's railway station a couple of hours before my friend Himanshu's wedding. He had sent his roommate to pick m...