"You are going to Aswan, then you must get me some peanuts and karkade. Aswan souq is the best place for them", said my sister-in-law when I told her that I was...
The four islands group of Socotra are located around 217 nautical miles off the Yemeni coast and approximately 130 off the coast of Somalia. This well kept Yeme...
"It is not down in any map, True places never are" - Herman Melville. This is completely applicable to Socotra Island. It is one of the most fascinating destina...
The attention span of humans is very short and the memory is even shorter. It has the wonderful capability of sifting through what matters and affects us direct...
The Corona lockdown has hit me hard. I am going absolutely berserk. Being in Egypt feels like an imposition now and I desperately crave for India. Billions of p...
My earliest Holi memories go back to my growing up days at the paramilitary camp where we stayed during my father's CRPF service days. In those camps, all festi...
"A woman dances away in bliss, a sublime smile playing on her lips: a group of men painted pink, green, yellow, and red, congregate in a joyous circle, their jo...
Traveling with children is beautifully enriching. There is no greater pleasure than to see your child’s eyes light up from the amazement of discoveries they mak...
In 2013 or 2014, I spent some weeks in Sri Lanka. It was during monsoon and tourism was at its lowest. The prices were low and the were crowds less. Though I fa...
Drip-drip, the rain fell insistently outside my window. It was not a hard, drumming rain that bears down like dead weight and makes everything feel wet and must...