Bombay

The Pleasures of Being at Sea

Sneha Bhura

The hidden enchantment of Bekal Fort

Hotel Watson

Aastha Atray Banan

An exclusive address of Bombay’s British days is on its way to dilapidation

The Manhole Cover Guide

Aastha Atray Banan

R Murali conducts a tour in Mumbai called Manhole and Other Covers

A Twist in Time

Ishrat Syed

Bombay and Diu—new travels in old footsteps

Kipling House

Kalpish Ratna

A little green bungalow in Bombay, a colonial era writer who still haunts it, and the stories left to tell

Bombay Oil Spill

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Although the Bombay oil spill spread to Alibaug and Uran, the Coast Guard has said that the spill has ended.

Disappearing for days into the Western Ghats, this man looks under rocks, sifts through piles of leaves and generally gets his hands quite dirty looking to discover new species of amphibians and reptiles. In fact herpetologist Varad Giri is a pretty rare creature himself: a researcher who can’t have enough of the creepy crawlies

Shiva’s Fury

Hartosh Singh Bal

A meteorite 40 km in diameter that struck off the west coast of India may have doomed the dinosaurs.

They are Hardworking and Hateworthy

Avinash Subramaniam

The thing about hate—it’s about love, actually. It’s an emotion of denial. A defence mechanism. Hating a thing has much to do with coveting something about it.