Discovering Kerala in Phnom Penh

I have a perpetual case of fernweh - ever encountered this word? It's Germanic in origin and it means wanderlust. Why do I wander? I wander in search of what makes them different from us, where do the them and us merge - or do they ever? I think I have travelled to about 24 countries...

Some spectacular sunsets from across the world

I am not a morning person - there, one confession down right at the beginning. I try - I earnestly do. I have tried going to sleep early, all I end up is sleeping for 10 hours instead of the required 7 hours. I have tried alarms away from my hand or literally in the...

Surviving the chaos in hilly Dharamsala

If you are the kind that scours the work calendar for long weekends to escape from the daily humdrum - away from the urban chaos, you also need to be the kind to plan it weeks (if not months) in advance. Or you'll end up doing what we did! Not that it is not fun,...

Brush Your French Up For Pondicherry!

Ever felt a sense of serenity while walking on a beach front that thronged with several thousands - where every step that you take is matched by a few hundreds walking in the same direction? Waiting to watch the sun go down to chalk down another day as well-spent on the planet? The city is...

Living in Art – Life in Shekhawati

Sometimes you need a getaway from your mundane life - a quick de-tox from the pace of life in a metropolitan city. I feel the need for a detox every month. Since I'm yet to strike on a happy working formula that allows me to just up and go every month, I try to take...

2014: The Travel Flashback

Among journalists, December is a year of much joy and also haste - putting together year-enders (especially for TV journos like me) meant looking back over the year archives, picking and choosing incidents and stories to cobble together into one-hour year-ender shows - so the order usually is research, amassing the footage, writing over visuals,...