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Cover Story | Travel Issue 2024

The Cultural Traveller

Madhavankutty Pillai
Madhavankutty Pillai

To really know a place is to know its stories. It is walking without hurrying. Maybe seeing something in part but with immersion

The Cultural Traveller
| Travel Issue 2024

Never the Twain Shall Meet

Suhel Seth

Until it learns to appreciate and nurture its cultural heritage, India will not be in serious competition to attract travellers

| Open Essay

Shadowboxing for Trump

Carlo Pizzati

The MAGA ethos of Jake Paul beating Mike Tyson

Jake Paul lands a punch on Mike Tyson at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, November 15, 2024
Protesters take down a security bunker outside the residence of a legislator (

Politics

Breaking the Chain Reaction

The cycle of violence in Manipur needs a strong response from both the Union and state governments that targets insurgents without alienating any community

Finding Begum Akhtar

Cover Story | Travel Issue 2024

Finding Begum Akhtar

Every city has at least one legendary icon who embodies its spirit. Kaveree Bamzai goes to Lucknow in search of the Queen of Ghazals who personified Awadh

The Atash Behram temple in Udvada, Gujarat

Cover Story | Travel Issue 2024

Zoroaster Shows the Way

Zoroaster Shows the Way: Retracing the earliest Parsi settlements in Sanjan, Udvada and Navsari, Lhendup G Bhutia explores the rich tapestry of myths, history, and modern challenges facing the community

The ruins in Hampi, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Cover Story | Travel Issue 2024

The Eternity of Art in Hampi

In the shadow of its hallowed ruins, V Shoba finds the legacy of the art and handicraft of Vijayanagara living on in ancient and modern forms

Pawar on Pawar

Columns | Insider

Pawar on Pawar

None of the main players can claim the moral high ground as the events really test the adage that politics is the art of the possible

The hill at Mural de la Prehistoria, Viñales, Pinar del Río

Cover Story | Travel Issue 2024

Vitamin R in Tobacco Land

The Cuban cigar is coveted worldwide but what does it mean to the country itself? Ullekh NP ventures into the tobacco heartland of Pinar del Río and finds a connection with Kerala and the beedi

The Tsarap river trail

Cover Story | Travel Issue 2024

The Buddha Smiles Again

Padum in Zanskar was a small, isolated Buddhist town accessed in winters only through an arduous trek over a river of ice. Today, Amita Shah finds a new highway offshoot that has brought the world to it

Modi’s Global Playbook

Columns | Comment

The Guyana Symbolism

Modi’s stopover in South America’s biggest success story is very apt

At Plac Jana Matejki, sculptures keep memories alive

Cover Story | Travel Issue 2024

Kraków: Living in a Metaphor

Like a well-crafted novel, Kraków reveals its secrets slowly, inviting repeated visits, rewarding careful attention. Sabin Iqbal gets into the city’s literary soul

A German artillery gun at Longues-sur-Mer, part of the infamous Atlantic Wall, where such batteries hammered targets up to 20 miles away with 150mm shells

Cover Story | Wealth Issue 2024

Normandy: Ghosts of War

On the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion that won World War II, Rishad Saam Mehta visits the sites of the Normandy landings to discover that violence has been replaced by tribute and thankfulness

The Barabar Hill Caves, India’s oldest surviving rock-cut caves, in Bihar’s Sultanpur district

Cover Story | Travel Issue 2024

Barabar Caves: The Repassage

A hundred years ago, EM Forster, in his most celebrated novel A Passage to India, wrote about the Marabar Caves. Tansy Troy travels to Bihar’s Barabar Caves, the inspiration for Forster’s fictional setting

The Little Street (1658), oil on canvas by Johannes Vermeer

Cover Story | Travel Issue 2024

In Search of Johannes Vermeer

He painted some of the world’s most-celebrated masterpieces based out of the small city of Delft. Debashree Majumdar goes looking for the Dutch artist’s imprints that still resonate

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