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Backpackers Café

We thought Delhi heat had something epic to it, and after taking it for enough days to proclaim ourselves heroes, we decided to leave for a June field trip to Chandigarh. We left the forty something degrees of the Capital City, turned on the Punjabi tunes... Read >

Gurgaon Dreaming

It's the last day of April. I look out of the window and it is enough to drive me to despair. The relentless sun has bleached the green from the trees and the shadows from the buildings - everything around is a shimmering shade of pale heat. The neighbour... Read >

The Dancer of Suburbia

When a city prides itself on the extravagance of its malls, you know you are going to be in trouble if you are looking for culturally meaningful pastimes for your children. But tucked away in a green and leafy corner of suburbia, a quiet revolution is ta... Read >

Homeboat Mashal

Dal Lake is a piece of Paradise. Reflecting water, floating lilies, colourful shikaras (the typical small boats used as taxis on the lake). And houseboats. Around the lake the city with its strikes, the soldiers, the "Welcome to Paradise on Earth" sig... Read >