Sundarbans National Park, West Bengal, East India, is a UNESCO World Heritage site, along with Sundarbans, Bangladesh. It’s a huge biosphere reserve with dense mangrove forests and complex intersection of...
Bhimbetka Rock Shelters, Madhya Pradesh, West/Central India, are a group of caves inhabited by the earliest human settlers in India. Declared a UNESCO World Heritage site, these rocks are famous...
Mattancherry Palace & Paradesi Synagogue is located in Kochi, Kerala, South India. The palace was built in 1555 by the Portuguese and renovated by the Dutch, a century later. It...
[Comments ON] A.R. Rehman’s Oorvasi, Oorvasi… from Kadhalan (Watch it ALSO for the DANCE) How can anyone (of my generation) even attempt to shortlist the best/top 10 songs composed by...
Agra Fort, Uttar Pradesh, North India, is a UNESCO World Heritage site that covers 3,80,000 sq. m. 70-feet high boundary walls around the semi-circular site makes it (almost) a walled...
Majuli River Island, Assam, East India is the largest riverine island in the world. Situated within the braided Brahmaputra river (that stretches up to 10 miles at its widest point),...
[Comments ON] Sometimes, people ask me this question – ‘How do I improve my English?’. That makes me think how I improved my own English. Did I grow up...
Champaner-Pavagadh, Gujarat, West India, is a UNESCO World Heritage site. What do you get when a medieval capital city is suddenly abandoned and forgotten? Champaner, built during 16 CE by Mahmud Begada...
Pattadakal, Karnataka, South India is a UNESCO World Heritage site that contains a number of ancient monuments built during 7 – 9 CE. Ten important Temples built using both Dravidian...
Nanda Devi/Valley of Flowers, Uttarakhand, North India are UNESCO World Heritage sites/National parks that are situated (from) 3600 meters above sea-level, in the mighty Himalayas. Nanda Devi national park is...