India

A traveler finds a friend in a local tailor in India but struggles to connect with his assistant, a young girl from a nomadic tribe. When my tour group arrived…

After passing a fitful night at an Indian train station, a traveler panics when she realizes the train to Agra is already on the move. I ran as fast as…

A mistake leads to adventure when a traveler in India misses her train station, and strikes up spontaneous conversations with local commuters. The train’s window disappoints me intensely. It is…

An Indian traveler attempts to come to terms with the complex legacy of British colonialism. Like every Indian, I too lament the many ills inflicted upon us by the British…

A traveler observes the Sanjay Colony outside New Delhi and rethinks her assumptions of what it means to live in a “slum.” It’s 1:00 p.m. at New Delhi’s Connaught Place.…

A filmmaker travels to Mumbai and discovers the reality behind some of Bollywood’s most emotional movies.   Once we landed in Mumbai and descended the plane, we were greeted by…

Dangerous weather on India’s highest mountain plateau forces a traveler to choose between safety and adventure. I gave up telling people my plans to go to Ladakh because the responses…

A travel writer attempts to describe the intensity of India while avoiding the ultimate cliché. When the journalist Christopher Hitchens went to Prague during the final years of communism, he…

In an ancient city in southern India, a traveler observes a local religious festival and unexpectedly ends up in the middle of the action. In the ancient Sri Meenakshi Amman…