Of the twelve Jyotirlingas, the sacred self-manifested shrines of Lord Shiva described in the Shiva Purana,…

In most countries, religion is something practised in designated buildings at designated times. In Bhutan, it…

North India compresses an extraordinary amount of history, architecture, and cultural variety into a relatively compact…

By mid-May, Shimla's Mall Road is shoulder-to-shoulder. Manali's traffic jams start at Solang Valley and end…

Bhutan does not market itself the way most countries do. There are no beach resorts, no…

Every May, as classroom attendance thins and the mercury climbs past 40 degrees across the Indian…

Tripura is the third-smallest state in India, wedged between Bangladesh on three sides and the Indian…

Badami occupies a sandstone gorge in the Bagalkot district of northern Karnataka, roughly 500 kilometres northwest…

Gujarat is one of those Indian states that rarely tops the international tourist circuit but consistently…

Kochi does not behave like a typical Indian city. It is spread across a cluster of…

Lucknow sits at the geographic centre of Uttar Pradesh with expressway connections running east toward Varanasi,…

Manali sits at 2,050 metres in the upper Kullu Valley, where the Beas River runs through…