The Imperial Hotel, New Delhi Barbara Kingstone June 16, 2019 Hotels, India, India While in India, again in New Delhi, there’s the elegant, old but new again, The Imperial Hotel. It reminds me of a large Maharani’s residence since the old ‘dame’s’ facelift has proven...
ITC Maurya Hotel, New Delhi Barbara Kingstone June 11, 2019 Hotels, India, India ITC MAURYA HOTEL in New Delhi, over the years I have stayed here on several occasions. From my very first stay, I realized this is one of the finest hotel chains. Service is what I look for as well, of...
Kolkata’s Synagogues and Last Few Jews Barbara Kingstone April 16, 2019 Destinations, India, India I couldn’t imagine that the large typical enclosed Indian market place, the old New Market, was where I would find the head of the Jewish community in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) India. But that’s...
INDIA-CONCIERGE.GURU Barbara Kingstone February 26, 2019 India, India, News, Travel Tips “INDIA changes people” wrote Ruth Prawar Jhabvala noted novelist. (Heat and Dust). I’ve traveled the world and India is the ultimate experience. If it’s your first,...
THE IMPERIAL Hotel Barbara Kingstone February 6, 2019 Destinations, Hotels, India, India THE IMPERIAL Hotel, Delhi, India ; the old dowager has had the most marvellous facelift and is one of the most glorious and gracious hotels in Delhi. There was a time in Delhi, India, when The...
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...
