Indian E Visa Scheme Comes to the UK at last

Indian E Visa Scheme Comes to the UK at last

In an attempt to boost tourism, India is finally opening up it’s E Visa Scheme to the UK, a move which will hopefully lessen the stressful and time consuming business of applying via the current process. The cost will be also reduced from the current fee of £89.44 to £39, and rather than book an appointment […]

Travelling with your VW Campervan in India: Our Tips

Travelling with your VW Campervan in India: Our Tips

In the 1960’s, a group of intrepid travellers coined the term the ‘hippie trail’ for the classic overland route from Istanbul to India, crossing Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Lured by tales of the impossibly empty white beaches of Goa, a cheap cost of living, and the promise of an amazing adventure this route became a […]

Six Notable Indian Books of 2014

Six Notable Indian Books of 2014

Here’s our annual list of some of the best books published by Indian writers in 2014, all of which made it onto the Notable Books of 2014 selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. (1) Family Life by Akhil Sharma. Praise for this book has been widespread with critics reaching for their dictionaries […]

Priya Shakti: The Rise of a New Superhero

Priya Shakti: The Rise of a New Superhero

As with Gotham, which got the hero it deserved in the form of Batman, India has a new comic book superheroine Priya Shakti. Created in the wake of the brutal gang rape on a Delhi bus two years ago, the heroine Priya is a mortal woman who is raped herself, but who fights back against sexual violence […]

An insiders View from Vashisht, Himachal Pradesh

An insiders View from Vashisht, Himachal Pradesh

I’ve had the pleasure of calling Himachal Pradesh, the Northern Indian state where they grow the best apples and where the Tibetan Government-In-Exile is located, my home for the past two years. The Himalayan peaks are breathtaking (for the eyes and the lungs) and the people are of the good hardy mountain variety. Rajistan and […]

David Vaala’s ‘Ladakh’

David Vaala’s ‘Ladakh’

Many books have been published on the high altitude snow kingdom of Ladakh, but few as wonderful as this new tome by photographer David Vaala, whose 5 year immersion has yielded gold. Vaala writes in the introduction that the book is intended to ‘celebrate Ladakh as a repository for Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan culture where […]

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