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Singing by the Rain

V Shoba

Sacred groves, spring festivals and villages that weave art from baskets— V Shoba finds the monsoon in Meghalaya to be a season of the soul

Romancing Saigon

Anjum Hasan

Vietnam celebrates 50 years of its reunification this year. In Ho Chi Minh City, amidst overflowing cafés, restaurants, boutiques, souvenir shops, and museums, Anjum Hasan finds the ultimate triumph has been of consumerism

A Moveable Feast

Suvir Saran

Suvir Saran discovers the world on his tongue, every dish an identity and connection, from Manhattan’s eclectic chaos to Tokyo’s measured precision

Trombones and Tabasco

Rishad Saam Mehta

Rishad Saam Mehta learns that the New Orleans Jazz Festival is the perfect end to a road trip through Louisiana, exploring Cajun towns, swamps and plantations

Far from the Venetian Crowd

Carlo Pizzati

Carlo Pizzati takes a day’s drive through a hidden corner of Veneto, the land of Asiago cheese and Hemingway’s North Italian novels

Roman Holiday

Debashree Majumdar

Summer in the Italian capital offers Debashree Majumdar moments of unexpected grace under its immortal architecture

Mystic Mountain

Priyanka Dalal

With more than 800 Jain temples, the Shatrunjaya hill in Palitana is considered the world’s largest such complex at its height. Priyanka Dalal goes on an ascent of faith

Panorama of the Past

Tishani Doshi

New Mexico was the closest DH Lawrence came to a religious experience. Tishani Doshi says it is still there for the taking in Taos Valley where language and landscape reflect each other

The Emperor’s Redoubt

Lhendup G Bhutia

Raigad Fort, once an impregnable capital, has only the ruins of its grandeur left. Lhendup G Bhutia discovers that it is still a pilgrimage spot for those who venerate Shivaji