Facebook Google+ Twitter I visited the Indian city of Hyderabad a couple of months ago. It was my first trip to a city I had heard so much about. A city steeped in history, drenched in heritage and oozing culture at every turn. It was a friend’s wedding that finally took me to Hyderabad, but ...

Facebook Google+ Twitter I’m on a quest to Take12Trips this year, and it’s going well so far. After a weekend getaway to Mumbai in January, followed by another quick trip to Mussoorie in February; a day at the Delhi Zoo in March and a fantastic week in Europe in April; Delhi’s unbearable heat in the month of May had me escaping to the hills. Shimla ...

Facebook Google+ Twitter Childhood vacations are etched in our memory like a patchwork quilt of extremes. As you grow up, only the really good and the really bad aspects of your trip stay with you. As a child, I had the fortune of taking many vacations with my family (I guess I inherited the travel ...

Facebook Google+ Twitter   एक ज़माना था जब शहर या कस्बे में मेले का आना किसी पारंपरिक त्योहार से कम खुशियाँ देने वाला नहीं होता था। हम बच्चों में छोटे बड़े झूले देखने और नए खिलौने खरीदने की जिद होती। छोटे मोटे सामानों को कम दामों पर खरीद कर गृहणियाँ गर्व का अनुभव करतीं। साथ ही ...

Facebook Google+ Twitter Sharing few moments captured from my trip to North Bengal this January. BARAMANGWA- DELO- CHOTAMANGWA FLORA: PEOPLE:   This entry has been shortlisted for Holidify’s Travelogue Writing Contest in association with Linger. The content and pictures may not be used without prior permission of the author. Submitted by: Manikuntala Das The original post can be ...

Facebook Google+ Twitter A hot cup of coffee is my utmost requirement when I am tired and post my shopping adventure I sure was tired, famished and in no state to go searching for a coffee cafe near the “Clock tower” of Jodhpur though it has many eateries catering quick bites. The market place near the clock tower ...

Facebook Google+ Twitter Anegundi - The Land of the Vijayanagara Kings, the Kishkinda of yore, the land that becons me again and again to it. Navabrindavanam, Chintamani and Pampa Sarovar are places that I visit every time I get an opportunity to do so. Another noteworthy temple that one must visit while touring Anegundi is the famous Durga Temple up a ...

Facebook Google+ Twitter Ever since I saw Om Puri playing Krishna Devaraya in Shyam Benegal’s Bharat Ek Khoj as a kid, I’ve had a deep fascination for the Vijaynagara Empire. The last non-islamic superpower of the Deccan that the Bahmanis had to literally collude to dismantle and an architectural marvel that left Portuguese wanderers agape, Vijayanagara has always ...

Facebook Google+ Twitter A few days after my trip to Hampi, I somehow got this inner call to go to Thirunelli, which is situated in a northern most district of Kerala, Wayanad. Thirunelli Temple was my first priority and after a bit of Youtube-ing and Google-ing, I found that there is Papanashini located just about ...