India

In the first installment of The Recovering Backpacker, a column that looks at what makes for a meaningful travel experience, Nathan James Thomas responds to Agnes Callard’s controversial New Yorker…

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 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…

After a gap of seventeen years, a Bengali travel writer returns to the storied city of Kolkata. With her husband and their adult daughter, they set out to discover the…