Tag Archives: Discover India

I always complain that folks from Pune and Bengaluru are blessed when it comes to places to visit nearby. Panchgani, Lonavala, Khandala and the likes for Punekars and Coorg, Madikeri, Mysore for Bangaloreans. There are so many places to visit. Hyderabadis sadly don’t have many at a one-day road trip …

The other day one of my colleagues at work said that I’m perfectly utilising the remote work option. Some days I’m working out of Hyderabad, some days from Lucknow and even sometimes in Mumbai. Though some of my friends have been taking this to the next level with international trips, …

When I decided to spend two weeks in Bombay last month, meeting friends, travelling on a local train and trying local food only were on my agenda. I explored various parts of the city to tick off these items from my bucket list. Though my first trip on the local …

For quite some time I thought that hostels were only for students. Having studied in a boarding school for years, for me hostel and dormitory meant it was for students. It was only when I started travelling, that I learnt about backpacker hostels for travellers. Mostly for solo travellers, backpacker …

Prior to my recent trip to Mumbai, I had heard and seen a lot of stories where people were offboarded at a station they didn’t intend to by the crowd. Hence, I was scared to get on a metro fearing that I’d miss my station because of the crowd. Fortunately, …

Every day thousands of people come to Mumbai, some for work, some for leisure. Unlike other metropolitan cities in India, Mumbai is vast. For anyone visiting Mumbai for the first time, you can be taken for a ride if you’re not aware of the geography. For a city of that …

A few weeks back I was in Mumbai to experience the Cordelia Mumbai High Seas Cruise. While most of my colleagues left, I decided to stay back and explore Mumbai. This was my first slow travel experience ever. It was a plan for 15 days during which I worked, fell …

How many of you remember those charts with modes of transport on them that we used to get during our primary school days? Train, Bus, Car, Plane, and Ship we’re a few of the diagrams on that chart. Back then flying in an aeroplane was a dream, thanks to Dad …

Hyderabad is a gastronomical fantasy that everyone wants to live in. A perfect mix of the Nizami cuisine along with the kiraak street food and the local Andhra/Telangana food. Being a Hyderabadi for close to 8 years now, I’ve fallen in love with the city. From the people to the …

The last couple of years has been quite good for me in terms of travel touch wood. Apart from a few personal travels to Lucknow, there were quite a few collaborations I did. I collaborated on a few staycations in Hyderabad at Novotel HICC & Mercure Hyderabad. I was also …