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Dubai for the Jet-Setting Gourmand
It’s easy to underestimate Dubai as a global food capital. So what if expats make up over four-fifths of its population, or if every year, more chefs and acclaimed restaurants follow its siren song, bringing wacky and wonderful gastronomic adventures to the city? After you’ve seen and heard about its pulse and pizzazz, it’s easy to scoff and stop short of stacking it against the New Yorks and Tokyos and the Georgetowns and San Sebastians of the world. That would be sacrilege.
I’m at Nakheel M
I’m at Nakheel M
Amitav Ghosh on Travelling in the Time of Climate Change
‘Could we have turned back ourselves? No–that too was impossible now; for our bodies too had grown used to this drug, and to the thin air that we had risen to, and to all the excitement that accompanied our ascent. There was nothing to be done, but to keep on climbing. And so we did, but with heavy hearts now, for we could not forget that with every step we took we were advancing towards our doom.’
The conundrum faced by the Varvaroi, inhabitants of the pristine valley that a great massif overl
The conundrum faced by the Varvaroi, inhabitants of the pristine valley that a great massif overl
10 Original Ways to Fake a Vacay
Lockdown or no lockdown, those who can’t do without travel will always find a way to feel the thrum of travel. Those into reading will hunt down old guidebooks in dusty shops selling vintage titles at per-kilo rates. The social-media savvy will sign up for virtual tours and the more hands-on will simply embark on nightlong vlog binges on YouTube.
Some real crazy ones like me will even try to have a barebones shack installed on their terraces to work from the ‘beach’ or play sounds of different
Some real crazy ones like me will even try to have a barebones shack installed on their terraces to work from the ‘beach’ or play sounds of different
Merry Gents of Binsar
Anaphalis Margaritacea. I will have found out what this wildflower that speckles the slopes of Kumaon like fireflies of the day is called only later. Their fluid, buoyant grasp sucks us in every now and then, and our city knees, fresh out of a lockdown, swoon readily before their practised charms. We wade through their midst and their ensuing sighs have turned these fields all auburn.
*Lying in the lap of the Kumaon hills, the Binsar Wildlife Sanctuary stretches over 47 sq km of unsullied dense
*Lying in the lap of the Kumaon hills, the Binsar Wildlife Sanctuary stretches over 47 sq km of unsullied dense
The Himalayan Arc takes a long, hard look at the uneasy realities of the region
How do you imagine the Himalayas? We do know that beyond its national limits, the mountain chain extends into as far as Afghanistan in the west, and to the east, extrudes into Nepal, Bhutan, and Myanmar, but how often do we consider the fact’s geopolitical implications?
Compiled by acclaimed Indian author, and co-founder of the Jaipur Literary Fest, Namita Gokhale, The Himalayan Arc: Journeys East of South-East is an unlikely book about travel and experience, about communities and their relatio
Compiled by acclaimed Indian author, and co-founder of the Jaipur Literary Fest, Namita Gokhale, The Himalayan Arc: Journeys East of South-East is an unlikely book about travel and experience, about communities and their relatio
