Living

A Voyeur’s Guide to the Billionaire Experience

arindam

A hedonistic celebration of affluence

Living with Claustrophobia

Aastha Atray Banan

It’s not ‘all in the mind’ when you choose to climb 20 floors instead of taking the elevator

Gurus in Pinstripes

Aastha Atray Banan

Some will ask you to walk on fire. Most tell you things you already know. And yet, curiously, ‘life coaches’ have so many takers in India these days. What’s going on?

Where Heaven Meets Hell

Angus McDonald

The frontier town of Strahan in Tasmania, once entered, is still not easily left

Tales from the Desert Safari

Trisha Gupta

In Jaisalmer, tour guides and hotel managers can be as interesting as the place itself

Paradise Island, Up Close and Real

Shubhangi Swarup

Zanzibar, in the southern hemisphere, offers a warm escape from the winter chill. But it takes a few days there for first impressions to peel off, and that’s when you begin to uncover its eclectic eccentricities

Come, Visit Me in Goa

Aimee Ginsburg

…and it will be just the escape we so urgently need, writes Aimee Ginsburg to a friend stubbornly unconvinced of its storied charms

Life’s a Beach

Mitali Saran

Past the clichés of Kenya’s game parks and the Maasai, Mitali Saran finds herself in the charming, anachronistic four-car town of Lamu

Hallowed Heights

Ashok Mahadevan

After cancer and retirement, what do you do? How about climbing the Kilimanjaro and Himalayas

Chasing the Snow

Rishad Saam Mehta

Temperatures were still in their 30s in Bombay when I got a call from Himachal—there was the smell of snow in the air. So he packed his bags and loaded them into his car for a 2,000 km ride