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Cover Story | Travel Issue 2025

Panorama of the Past

Tishani Doshi

New Mexico was the closest DH Lawrence came to a religious experience. Tishani Doshi says it is still there for the taking in Taos Valley where language and landscape reflect each other

The Enchanted Circle Scenic Byway which circles Wheeler Peak
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Mystic Mountain

Priyanka Dalal

With more than 800 Jain temples, the Shatrunjaya hill in Palitana is considered the world’s largest such complex at its height. Priyanka Dalal goes on an ascent of faith

The Palitana city temple
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The Emperor’s Redoubt

Lhendup G Bhutia

Raigad Fort, once an impregnable capital, has only the ruins of its grandeur left. Lhendup G Bhutia discovers that it is still a pilgrimage spot for those who venerate Shivaji

The ramparts of Raigad Fort
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Reading the Cholas Right

By insisting on comforting and flat narratives, we misunderstand history

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Love in the Time of Murder

A wave of intimate-partner killings points to something more chilling than jealousy: the collapse of how Indians navigate desire, rejection and belonging

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Frederick Forsyth (1938-2025) rewrote the art of spy writing

In career spanning dozens of popular books and films, the former pilot-turned-reporter-turned author entertained millions with gripping plots and unforgettable characters

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Maoist ranks decimated, only 14 leaders remain alive

The “movement” is now close to an end and given the pace of decimation of top ranks of CPI (Maoist)

The inner dome of St Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City

Cover Story | Travel Issue 2025

Roman Holiday

Summer in the Italian capital offers Debashree Majumdar moments of unexpected grace under its immortal architecture

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Cover Story | Travel Issue 2025

The Cultural Traveller

The world is a series of connections available to those who go looking for it. In doing so, they discover something of themselves

Elemental Beauty

Cover Story | Travel Issue 2025

Elemental Beauty

It took Arti Das 10 years to visit Andretta, a picturesque village in the Himalayas that became a global centre for pottery. But it was worth the wait

Umkar is one of the more accessible root bridges in Meghalaya

Cover Story | Travel Issue 2025

Singing by the Rain

Sacred groves, spring festivals and villages that weave art from baskets— V Shoba finds the monsoon in Meghalaya to be a season of the soul

A commemoration outside the Reunification Palace, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)

Cover Story | Travel Issue 2025

Romancing Saigon

Vietnam celebrates 50 years of its reunification this year. In Ho Chi Minh City, amidst overflowing cafés, restaurants, boutiques, souvenir shops, and museums, Anjum Hasan finds the ultimate triumph has been of consumerism

A band performs at the jazz festival

Cover Story | Travel Issue 2025

Trombones and Tabasco

Rishad Saam Mehta learns that the New Orleans Jazz Festival is the perfect end to a road trip through Louisiana, exploring Cajun towns, swamps and plantations

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Ayodhya’s Second Consecration

The auspicious event was attended by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath who turned 53 around the same time

Cover Story | Travel Issue 2025

A Moveable Feast

Suvir Saran discovers the world on his tongue, every dish an identity and connection, from Manhattan’s eclectic chaos to Tokyo’s measured precision

The Ponte Vecchio (Ponte degli Alpini) bridge over the Brenta river in Bassano del Grappa

Cover Story | Travel Issue 2025

Far from the Venetian Crowd

Carlo Pizzati takes a day’s drive through a hidden corner of Veneto, the land of Asiago cheese and Hemingway’s North Italian novels

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