One of the few good things to come out of 2020 is the access to fresh, healthy produce via our smartphones. As supply chains across the country were uprooted due to the pandemic and subsequent lockdown, farmers and vendors across India were forced to set up digital portals to enable their businesses to function smoothly. […]
Advertisements Advertisements India’s stars enjoying beach getaways in the Maldives While winter is settling in across the country with single-digit temperatures, the Maldives is the destination to escape the cold and enjoy a balmy sea breeze. Several Bollywood stars have done just that, posting pictures of their beach paradise, and tempting us to follow suit. […]
There is a new set of restrictions coming up in December to keep COVID in check. The central government has issued a new set of guidelines for surveillance, containment and mindfulness against the coronavirus. These new rules will be in effect from 1 December till 31 December. New MHA guidelines on COVID-19 International air travel […]
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Advertisements Advertisements Photo: Zerilli Media / Alamy Stock Photo Planning a holiday menu but at your wit’s end thinking about what to pair your roast chicken and plum cake with? Thumb through this easy guide to affordable red wines under Rs2,500. With flavours of blackberries, currants and oak, you can practically taste the festive cheer […]
While travel across the country is largely unrestricted now, some key cities are putting in some fresh restrictions to keep COVID-19 in check. Delhi, Gurugram, Mumbai, Indore, Jaipur, Ahmedabad are among those issuing fresh curbs such as night curfews. If you are headed to any of these cities, here is what you need to know: […]
“In no other culture does faith play out in as colourful and traditional a fashion as in India. In our country’s places of worship, we find rich myths, ancient traditions, cultural touchstones and delicious food that are offered to the Gods and to humans.” According to award-winning author and columnist Shoba Narayan, her newest book, […]
With 18 long weekends lined up for you in 2021, maybe this will be the year of travel you were hoping 2020 would be. Scroll down for the complete list and start planning that perfect mini-break. Note: Please check COVID-19 advisories and regulations for each state and take them into account while planning your trip […]
Advertisements Advertisements Ethiopian women carrying water from the well on their backs. Photo: hadynyah / Getty 22, and the list keeps getting bigger! There’s a new country Indians can fly to to cure their travel blues. India has just signed an air-bubble agreement with Ethiopia, making it the fourth African country on the bubble list […]
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CNT Editor Divia Thani’s note in our special 10th Anniversary issue is a collection of ten moments from her travels that have stayed with her over the years. From childhood trips to Africa to visit her dad, to her arrival in the US as a 17-year-old student, and a meditative trip to Ladakh during a […]
Aseem Chhabra first saw the searing Garm Hava in a Delhi theatre with his parents, who had suffered the horrors of Partition. The author of the biography, ‘Irrfan Khan – The Man, The Dreamer, The Star‘ feels this film justly celebrates the “idea of India,” reinforcing diversity as well as hope. Garm Hava (1974) ‘This […]
Advertisements Advertisements Amer Fort | Rajasthan, India | c. 1592 Photo by Chris Schalkx Since 2017, Wally and Amanda Koval’s Instagram handle @AccidentallyWesAnderson has put out a mission for fans of Wes Anderson’s films: to photograph real-life glimpses of his perfectly crafted, painstakingly detailed, pastel-coloured worlds. Watching The Grand Budapest Hotel—not an actual place—or Moonrise […]
I often get strange looks when I say I have travelled solo with my son to over 15 islands in the Maldives over the last six years. Though epitomized as a honeymoon destination for its stunning tropical beauty, Maldives also makes for the perfect family getaway. But with over 150 resorts to choose from, selecting […]
Advertisements Advertisements Photo: olegbreslavtsev/ Getty Images If you’re tired of putting up fairy lights, streamers and balloons yourself every time you host a party, these event planners will come to your rescue. Leave the ideating up to them, put your feet up and watch them transform your home into an incredibly picturesque party venue. These […]
There are just over 45 days left of this year. And given how 2020 has panned out, most of us have a lot more leave days piled up than other years. With no better time than now to use them up, here’s a bunch of ideas for you to make the most of your down […]
I watched my father’s expression change as I asked him about Bhoot Chaturdashi. I had been asking him a varied questions about Bengali culture since I wrote about forgetting my mother tongue, but this was a little out-there even for me. It didn’t help that Dad’s among the faint-hearted who steer clear anything near the […]
Advertisements Advertisements The view from Cecconi’s Soho House While the city enters its five-minute-long winter season, we’re pulling out the woollens and booking all the outdoor tables we can. Keeping social distancing and COVID safety protocols in mind, a few more restaurants have opened up alfresco seating at their establishments. Eating out, however, isn’t quite […]
Advertisements Advertisements Photo: UFUK SEZGEN / Alamy Stock Photo We have travelled together since we were 15 and have never liked a place with the same intensity—save for Beirut. It was 2012, over two decades after Lebanon’s devastating civil war. My five best friends from boarding school and I were at a downtown café, crunching […]
The grapevine is true. Property in Goa is as much in demand as hot poi at the moment, and everything from studio apartments to villas is selling briskly despite the pandemic—or more appropriately, because of it. The prospect of working from a place that is safe, largely crowd-free and affords a good quality of life […]
In April, when 93 year old Thomas Abraham from Kottayam became India’s first nonagenarian COVID survivor, his case was hailed as a miracle. Thomas revealed that his diet included pazhankanji–a simple rice gruel that is a breakfast staple in Malayali households. This simple preparation of rice and water manifests itself across the country in various […]
Advertisements Advertisements Photo: Nick Brundle Photography/ Getty Images As a holiday, our winter break in Egypt in 2018 was far from perfect. I had imagined a glamorous Death on the Nile sort of experience; instead, we were confronted with a death of expectations. Our cruise liner lacked any of the elements of luxury that it […]
Advertisements Advertisements Inhotim. in Brazil. Photo: Rubens Alarcon/ Alamy In my life, I have been to many museums and art galleries and gardens all over the world. But none of them compare to one particular art installation, deep in the Brazilian interior. It’s called Inhotim, and it’s a Brazilian Taj Mahal, created by a local […]
Advertisements Advertisements A young female gorilla sits on her nest in a jungle in Rwanda. Photo: Grant Faint/Getty Rwanda and the Netherlands are the newest countries that have established air travel bubble arrangements with India, bringing the total to 21 destinations. The bilateral corridor allows for international flights between both countries, without a need to […]
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When I first started roaming Buenos Aires in 2011, obsessed with portraying it naked, defenceless and devoid of people, which years later led to my project ‘Revelaciones – Behind the Scenes, Buenos Aires’, I learned to establish a very intimate relationship with my hometown, as never before in my life. Apparently, I missed that way […]
Sunburn is back in Goa this year. One of Asia’s most popular EDM festivals will take place at Vagator from 27 to 29 December 2020. However, COVID-19 means that there will be a whole new set of rules in place—and only 20% of the venue capacity will be filled. For context, previous editions have seen […]
Happy chatter, glasses clinking, and bright faces bursting into laughs. If it weren’t for the now-customary temperature check and a request to sanitise your hands before entering, we could well be in a parallel pandemic-free universe. It’s a Wednesday night and every seat at the new 65-cover—and dare I say improved—Bomras is taken. There’s even […]
The US may have made it popular, but it’s the Irish you must thank (or blame) for conjuring the spookiest night on the calendar. Here’s the story of how Halloween came into our lives. And just like it happened on that famous show, it had something to do with the fact that winter was coming. […]
For those who’ve been waiting months for Mumbai’s local trains to resume services for all, here’s hope: the Maharashtra government is seriously mulling over it, though there isn’t any fixed date yet for when the city’s suburban railway services may be accessible again to all. While Mumbai’s local trains resumed staggered services for a while […]
Beaches, backwaters, boutique hotels—there’s lots to love about Kerala. From island escapes to art hotels and earth-friendly resorts, God’s Own Country has just the keys you’ve been looking for. 13 Kerala hotels to book Spice Village, Thekkady Advertisements CGH Earth’s Spice Village Advertisements A pioneer in best practices for sustainable tourism in Kerala, CGH Earth’s […]
To put it simply, 2020 hasn’t exactly gone as planned. We’ve cancelled holidays and business trips and found ourselves stuck indoors for longer than we thought possible. But now, with borders opening up, travellers are itching to take to the skies once again. Collinson, a global leader in travel experiences is all set to reinforce […]
Sun, sand, surf, susegad—the sunshine state is everyone’s favourite getaway, and even more so this year. Goa’s charming hotels, top-notch restaurants, warm-hearted locals and beautiful outdoors are just the ticket to unwinding and celebrating the year’s gifts, such as they have been, and toasting the festive season. Whether you’re looking for five-star digs or a […]
Karnataka’s Karavali coast is an epicurean adventure where sattvik Udupi cuisine lies sandwiched between the two extremes of South Canara/Dakshina Kannada and North Canara/Uttara Kannada. The route from Bengaluru to Mangalore and up the scenic coastal highway to Goa is every foodie’s dream run–from Kalladka tea to Kundapur chicken and Bhatkali biryani and godi halwa […]
If jola/jowar (sorghum) is the staple of choice in North Karnataka, down south it’s all about ragi (finger millet), a favourite in the rural tracts. Fashioned into roti or mudde (balls), it goes well with mamsa saaru (mutton curry) or bas saru–green gram, toor dal, beans and dill cooked and strained into a gravy along […]
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After suspending all visas to India for nearly eight months, the government has finally restored them starting Thursday. This means Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholders and foreign nationals can visit the country for any purpose, except tourism. Who can visit India? All visas will be restored, except electronic, tourist and medical visas, an order […]
Advertisements Advertisements Image for representational purpose only. Photo: Krishnan V / Alamy Stock Photo After plans for a catamaran service were put on hold earlier this year, the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) is likely to launch water taxi services from the domestic cruise terminal (DCT) at Princess Dock in Mazgaon, reports Hindustan Times. To start, […]
Advertisements Advertisements Aishwarya Sridhar’s photo ‘Lights of Passion’ bagged her the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award Many wildlife photographers spend years trying to capture a big animal prowling in the wild. However, Panvel-based Aishwarya Sridhar has been aiming small. In June 2019, when she set out for the dense forests of Bhandardara in Maharashtra, […]
Advertisements Advertisements Hong Kong Photo: Weerasak Saeku/Getty Images India might be making headway in securing air bubble agreements with more and more countries, but things aren’t going well on the Hong Kong front. For the third time, Hong Kong has banned flights from two Indian airlines—Air India and Vistara. This time, the ban is in […]
Advertisements Advertisements L-R: Raw kachri, kachri chutney. Photos: Deepika Nandal As a child, I despised kachris or wild melons whenever it was prepared in my mother’s kitchen in Surat. I watched as the elders in the family—who grew up in desert villages near Jaisalmer—go crazy over the aroma of kachris that my relatives brought—tightly packed […]
Advertisements Advertisements Photo: Brooke Lark via Unsplash While the coronavirus will feature prominently in our memories of 2020, there’s a lot else that this year has brought us that’s colouring our rainbow. It’s got more of us in our own kitchens, and some of us are finally sharing our culinary gifts with more than just […]
With the entire population in lockdown and restaurants closed, people turned to their own ammeteur culinary expertise to prepare the dishes they loved best. And with time, as they honed their skills, we saw a number of delivery-only kitchens pop up across the country, including in Delhi of course, serving scrumptious food that would have […]
Incessant rainfall has lashed Telangana over the past few days—the heaviest in a century in Hyderabad in October—due to a deep depression passing over the state. According to reports, more than 30 people have died in the rain and the subsequent flash floods that turned streets across the region into rivers. Also, a large portion […]
Advertisements Advertisements Mukteshwar, Uttarakhand, Photo: Karen Anand The hills certainly seem to be alive with the sound of sweet music beckoning tourists once more and so we decided on Mukteshwar way up in the hills of Kumaon as our first travel escape in six months. Fifty years ago, Kumaon used to be a favourite summer […]
Advertisements Advertisements Photo: Benjamin Davies via Unsplash UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a “three-tier system of local COVID alert levels” in England on Monday 12 October 2020. The system aims to help standardise local restrictions as “the number of cases have gone up four times in four weeks,” noted the prime minister in an […]
As borders begin to open again, travellers are stepping out of their homes to enjoy the thrill of open roads and the magic of travel once again. At a time when safety is paramount, staycations have become the new buzzword among those itching for those crisp hotel sheets and gourmet breakfasts. People have never been […]
Advertisements Advertisements Photo: Jerry Redfern/LightRocket via Getty Images What makes Nagaland’s cuisine unique is the fact that all 16 tribes prescribe to their own indigenous spices, herbs, flavouring and ingredient combinations. Unfortunately, there aren’t many local restaurants in Nagaland that serve the local cuisine, for it is best cooked and served at home. For picante […]