All Aboard the Toy Train Barbara Kingstone April 3, 2016 Asia, Feature, India, India The author on the Toy Train Friendly seat companions Shilong, the start point of the Toy Train India changes people, I was once told by a friend from India. Even though I had...
Rajasthan’s forts and palaces Barbara Kingstone June 3, 2014 Asia, Hotels, India, India As with many incurable travellers, fantasies persist. And for those tireless adventurous types, destinations are becoming more exotic and unconventional.. Any peripatetic soul with lofty ambitions now have the...
Darjeeling may be know for their tea but there’s nothing as thrist quenching as having it served at heritage listed, Windamere Hotel Barbara Kingstone June 3, 2014 Asia, Hotels, India, India It’s a 2 ½hour drive 90 km from the airport to Darjeeling, over pitted narrow dusty hairpin roads, through shanty villages and bustling markets, the cranky car often clinging to the mountain side dotted...
The Laundry men of Mumbai. Dhobi Ghats get it sparkling clean. Barbara Kingstone June 3, 2014 Asia, India, India It’s 8am and already the heat of Mumbai (Bombay) is penetrating. It has all the markings of a scorching day. But the Dhobi Ghats have been working since dawn. Here in the Halakshimi area is one of India’s...
Maldah – In the Land of the Panduas. An easy pace for the active seniors and Boomers Subhasish Chakraborty February 18, 2014 Asia, Feature, India, India, Travel Tips At the junction of the Kalindi and Mahananda rivers, Maldah was once an important place as the port of the former Moslem capital – Pandua. An English factory was established here way back in 1656 but moved...
Bhubaneswar and The Golden Triangle, Must-See in India Barbara Kingstone December 28, 2013 Asia, Feature, India, India Bhubaneswar is the sort of city you expect to find in India- a developing, progressive city that doesn’t forget its past and does it efficiently. The capitol of the state of Orissa and a city of temples...
Compelling, Captivating Chattisgarh, the youngest state of the Indian republic Subhasish Chakraborty May 3, 2013 Asia, Feature, India, India Chattisgarh – the youngest state of the Indian republic is also the most attractive in terms of tourism resources. The beautiful state of Chattisgarh was carved out of one of India’s largest state –...
Musings in Mizoram, North East India Subhasish Chakraborty April 25, 2013 Asia, Feature, India, India During my high school years spent at the residential (Baptist) Carmel Residential School in Tezpur, Assam, I had the opportunity to make friends with many boarders who hailed from the state of Mizoram. Since...
Bandhavgarh National Park: Wilderness and History Entwined Subhasish Chakraborty April 19, 2013 Asia, Feature, India, India Many of us marvel at the exciting wilderness oriented things that other people do, but we have lots of excuses for not attempting them ourselves. No time. Not fit enough. Too risky, etc. etc…… The truth is...
Arunachal Pradesh, Tawang – Seduction in the Himalayas Subhasish Chakraborty April 6, 2013 Asia, Feature, India, India Any mention of Arunachal Pradesh rekindles memories of my childhood days spent in unfretted and no-holds-bared rendezvouz in the company of my tribal Monpa friends. Winters were always very special and we took...
