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Mumbai to Pune Heritage Tour: The Extraordinary Victorian Railway That 42,000 Workers Built Through the Western Ghats and Changed India Forever
In 1854 a British engineer looked up at the Western Ghats and proposed building a railway through them. His superiors said no. He proposed it again. No. Again. No. For...
Heisenberg Tagore Kolkata: When the Uncertainty Principle Met the Upanishads
On the afternoon of October 4 1929 a 28-year-old German physicist arrived at the house of a 68-year-old Indian poet in Kolkata. The physicist had two years earlier pub...
Ancient Karnataka Mathematicians: They Invented Calculus Before Europe Was Ready
Europe discovered calculus in the 17th century. A mathematician from Bijapur in Karnataka had described its foundational concepts five hundred years earlier. Europe de...
Nilgiri Mountain Railway: The Victorian Toy Train Still Climbing Asia's Steepest Track Through India's Blue Mountains
In 1854 a British engineer looked up at the Nilgiri Hills and proposed building a railway to the top. His superiors said no. He proposed it again. No. A third time. No...
Baba Baidyanath Jyotirlinga: The Extraordinary Story of the Only Place in the World Where Shiva and Shakti Are United Forever
There are twelve Jyotirlingas in India. There are fifty-one Shakti Peethas. And there is only one place in the entire world where both exist simultaneously within the ...
Ancient India Trade Routes: The 2000-Year-Old Document That Proves Vasco da Gama Did Not Discover India
In 1498 Vasco da Gama sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, crossed the Indian Ocean and arrived at the port of Calicut on the Kerala coast. Western history calls this ...
Channapatna Toys Tour From Bangalore: The Tiger King's Gift to the World That Michelle Obama Bought and Barack Obama Received
In the last decade of the 18th century, the most formidable military adversary the British East India Company ever faced in South India looked at a small town 60 kilom...
Bodhgaya Buddhist Pilgrimage Tour Blog
In the year 528 BCE, on the banks of a river in what is now the state of Bihar in India, a prince from Nepal sat beneath a fig tree and refused to move until he unders...
Ancient Goa Temples: Beyond the Beaches the Portuguese Could Never Destroy
Most people who visit Goa think its history began in 1510. That was the year the Portuguese arrived, defeated the Bijapur Sultanate and established the colony that wou...
Hampi Travel Guide: The Complete Guide to India's Most Extraordinary Ruined City
In 1500 AD Hampi was the second largest city in the world. Only Beijing was bigger. Its markets stretched for kilometres in every direction. Its temples were sheathed ...
Amrabad Tiger Reserve: The Hidden Tiger Safari From Hyderabad That Most of India Has Never Heard Of
Ask any wildlife enthusiast in India to name the country's tiger reserves and you will hear the same answers every time. Ranthambore. Kanha. Corbett. Bandhavgarh. Penc...
Gir Forest Lions: The Last 700 Asiatic Lions on Earth All Live in This One Forest in Gujarat
There is only one place on earth outside Africa where you can see lions in the wild. Not Kenya. Not Tanzania. Not Botswana or Zimbabwe or any of the African landscapes...
Ahmedabad Heritage Walk: The Complete Guide to the Pols of India's First UNESCO World Heritage City
Six hundred years ago a sultan stood on the banks of the Sabarmati River and built a city. Not just any city. A city of extraordinary ambition and extraordinary intell...
Varanasi Tour Guide: Why the World's Oldest Living City Changes Everyone Who Visits
There is a city in India that has been continuously inhabited for over three thousand years. Not ruins. Not archaeological remains. Not a restored heritage precinct wi...
Hoolock Gibbon Tour Assam: India's Only Ape Lives Here and Almost Nobody Knows It
Just before dawn in a forest surrounded by tea gardens in Assam, something extraordinary happens. A sound rises from the canopy that has no equivalent anywhere else in...
Sowcarpet Food Walk: A Former Wrestler, a 60-Year-Old Jalebi Shop and the Sandwich That Exists Nowhere Else on Earth
Nobody told you about Dinesh Soni. He is not in the guidebooks. His lassi bar does not have a website. He was a professional wrestler for years, competing in the circu...
Hyderabad Food Walk: 10 Legendary Dishes You Cannot Leave the City Without Eating
There is a city in India where people book flights specifically to eat. Not to see monuments. Not to visit museums. Not to tick sights off a bucket list. To eat. Hyder...
Old Delhi Food Walk: 12 Legendary Dishes That Have Fed the Same Lanes for 400 Years
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine a lane so narrow that two people can barely pass each other. The walls on either side are blackened by centuries of cooking sm...
Ponniyin Selvan Temple Tour: The Complete Guide to the Chola Empire's Three UNESCO World Heritage Sites
A thousand years ago the most powerful maritime empire in Asian history ruled from a river delta in Tamil Nadu. It launched a naval campaign that crossed the Bay of Be...
Hanging Pillar of Lepakshi: The Gravity-Defying Mystery of Ancient India's Most Astonishing Temple
In a small village in Andhra Pradesh, 120 kilometres from Bangalore, there is a 500-year-old stone pillar that does not touch the ground. It is not an optical illusion...
