Express News Service Phu Quoc Island seems to exist in a palm-fringed haze. Nestling along the Gulf of Thailand in south Vietnam, and voted by […]
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Dagshai Jail Museum tells stories of confinement and solitude- The New Indian Express
Express News Service Walking through the tree-lined hillside of the army cantonment of Dagshai in Solan, Himachal Pradesh, one comes across lush pine forests, winding […]
Magic Mushrooms- The New Indian Express
Express News Service Bio entrepreneur Arpit Dhupar lives in Delhi. Sometime in 2019, a year before the clouds of Covid-19 spread its wings, he was […]
Emerging from the Shadows- The New Indian Express
Express News Service In the quaint village of Nimmalakunta, in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh, there lives a small guild of painters and performers engaged […]
Woman at Work- The New Indian Express
Express News Service Exiles can be long if they have a cause. Nupur Tron, founder and director of ‘Foundation Frison Horta’ in Brussels, Belgium, has a cause […]
Filling in on art in Philly- The New Indian Express
Express News Service There’s more to Philadelphia than the famous Philly cheesesteak. Pennsylvania’s most populous city is the cradle of art. Its public murals—the city […]
Journey to Turkestan- the second Mecca of the East- The New Indian Express
Express News Service It is a scenic drive to Turkestan from Shymkent in Southern Kazakhstan, about 680 km from Almaty, the country’s largest city. The […]
Starting at the Finnish line – The New Indian Express
Express News Service Watching the northern lights is like seeing a miracle unfold. It’s as if the cosmos is dancing and a superpower up there is […]
A collection of crippled villages in West Germany- The New Indian Express
Express News Service B for Bonn. B for Boring. So it has been said of West Germany’s former capital city, about which A local politician […]
Dive deep into churches and churchkhela at Kutaisi in Georgia- The New Indian Express
Express News Service Thirty golden figures mounted on blue mosaic pedestals in the middle of a traffic island form the majestic Colchis fountain, the showstopper […]
Travelling in the magical land- The New Indian Express
Express News Service Recently, I made a trip to Turkey. I share some of my impressions of travelling in the magical land. GAZIANTEP There is […]
Divinity’s new dimension- The New Indian Express
Express News Service A temple dedicated to Lord Shiva in Siddipet, 100 km from Hyderabad, is teeming with crowds, thanks to it being the auspicious Karthika maasam […]
Taking stock of Stockholm- The New Indian Express
Express News Service When in Stockholm, set stock by Swedish design. It pervades everything and every place—the cafes and museums, the castles and parks, the streets, […]
Pride and patrimony- The New Indian Express
Express News Service Uttarakhand’s most revered city—Haridwar—is surprisingly a case study in art and architecture. Aside from the temples and ashrams that dot the town, there […]
Nurla: A stopover in no man’s land- The New Indian Express
Express News Service Alongside a murmuring brook, a gentle uphill trail dissolves from a brown, muddy one to a path flanked by willows, fields of peas […]
Notes from Ground Ziro- The New Indian Express
Express News Service The hills were alive with the sounds of music. There was Australian rock-punk band Mannequin Death Squad, getting people to bang heads, […]
Rising like a Phoenix- The New Indian Express
Express News Service History whispers from every corner of the densely populated Kigali in Rwanda, Africa. It was under the German rule, Belgians and the […]
The ways of water in Switzerland- The New Indian Express
Express News Service Switzerland’s most populous city and its economic centre—Zurich—is best known for banking and business. Most travellers whizz in and out of Zurich […]
Prussian pomp and splendour in Germany’s Potsdam- The New Indian Express
Express News Service Famous as the site of the Potsdam Conference in 1945, when the UK, US and the Soviet Union decided the fate of […]
Call of the Wild- The New Indian Express
Express News Service It is wild out there, but there are times when the boundaries seem to blur between the indoors and the outdoors. During […]
Chasing serenity in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg- The New Indian Express
Express News Service Some 150 km from the cacophony of Goa, lies Sindhudurg in Maharashtra. The serene coastal district is not only home to the […]
Hurrah to Hygge in Denmark’s Aarhus- The New Indian Express
Express News Service Are the Danes happier than the rest of the world? Perhaps; Denmark consistently ranks among the top 3 in the World Happiness […]
A walk in wonderland – The New Indian Express
Express News Service Long walks along winding roads, gabled colonial bungalows and magnificent churches, quaint cafés and bakeries drawing people in with the wafting aroma […]
