Bali: Eternity and the everyday

To visit Bali is to slide into an alternate reality where myths coexist with modern supermarkets, and the past and present coalesce harmoniously.

P. Krishna Gopinath

Alone with silence in Kökar

The first sight of Kökar, a remote island in the Baltic Sea confirms everything I had dreamt of, giving the landscape an almost hallucinatory quality.

Jaideep Unudurti

The emerald lands of Kodagu

Footloose in Kodagu, where the mercury still hovers around 20° Celsius.

Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta

Kumaon: Frozen in Time

Just as there is no free lunch, there is no journey without its hiccups.

Shikha Tripathi

Ancient bonds: Joining the Kailash-Mansarovar yatra

The crowning moment was when Tibetan pilgrims broke into age-old nyelu songs proclaiming the fraternity of all travellers on this sacred route.

Abhimanyu Pandey

Namibia: Windmills for Windhoek

On Vincent, an immigrant artist residing in the Namibian capital of Windhoek.

Mauritius: More than a tourist destination

Power games and a nation of small islands.

R.K. Radhakrishnan

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