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Bohemian beauty: Travelling through centuries in timeless, enchanting Prague

Standing in front of Prague’s Old Town Hall Tower (Old Town) gazing at the astronomical clock, I felt I had literally been transported to old Bohemia a few centuries...

Travel Latha Srinivasan

SIKHISM: See beyond the perishable

This particular incident from the travels of Guru Nanak Dev alludes to the practice...

Sacred Texts DAVINDER P.S. SANDHU

ISLAM: Miraculous nine days

According to researchers at University of California, Berkeley, a rapid succession of coronal mass...

Sacred Texts Late Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

HINDUISM: The worship of idols

Idol worship helps the mind to ideal worship. An idol is a symbol for...

Sacred Texts Prarthna Saran

Return the ASEAN Sea to Southeast Asia

Geographically, the nomenclature ‘South China Sea’ makes no sense, as the territories comprising South...

opinion M.D. Nalapat

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Tulips and windmills: Autumn is the best time to experience the real Holland

A traveller hardly needs an “excuse” to travel, but it is nice to have one anyway. Talking of excuses, what better than the one that...

Search to identify India’s ‘Next Big Heritage Destination’ is now underway

HolidayIQ, one of India’s largest travel and holiday information portal, very recently signed a Memorandum of Association (MOU) with The Indian National Trust for...

Language, literature and longing in the land of Gross National Happiness

In an article he wrote in 1995, Pico Iyer touches upon the misfortune of small South Asian countries, like Nepal and Bhutan, which have...

Beyond the verdant hills laced with intriguing history and frivolous gossip

Summer is synonymous with vacation, isn’t it? It’s also synonymous with the lovely hills. What better way to escape the hot and sultry weather...

Get, set, go: Women bikers on an adventure trip to Ladakh

The Royal Enfield Himalayan Odyssey is known to be an annual pilgrimage for bikers to the land of mountain passes, Ladakh. The Himalayas have...

When old motorbikes are given a new lease of life, you get two-wheeler vintage

Show your kid the love for motorcycles and he shall never have money for drugs,” read a man’s T-shirt as he drove past me...

Transportation Blues

Experts of urban development have a crucial parameter when it comes to ranking cities on the liveability index. It isn’t the per-capita income or...

Rishikesh: A bridge too far

I have always been drawn towards mysticism since the time I started reading Wordsworth in high school. And in college, when I was acclimatising...

A week-long escapade across Europe for three Delhi University students

To travel is to live,” the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen had said in his autobiography. In today’s mad and confusing world, which is...

Tales of Drukpa Buddhism in the scenic, enchanting landscape of Leh

An offer to visit Leh to cover a religious-cultural winter festival at the mysterious and splendidly located Hemis monastery does not come your way often....

Dying to be wild: Memories of an amateur motorbiking expedition

It seems travelling is a bug that has bitten quite a few beings of this planet. Birds do it, so do animals and let’s...

Self-drive holidays in rented cars, a new way to explore

A holiday is always a much awaited thing in any family. How the entire experience starts can actually make it or break it. As...

More than what meets the eye: Understanding modern Amsterdam

We think of novelties when we think of Amsterdam, a city that symbolises the progressive and liberalised ethos of a Europe that is supposedly...

Goa set for an artistic revival this season with Sensorium

Goa in the month of December tends to conform to a general stereotype, becoming a place somewhat limited in scope. At this time of...

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