By Vahishta Mistry
Everyone has a preferred pace of travel. I love a good road trip, I’ve found. I also have friends who love boarding airplanes, and who find they’re most at home in the sky, to whom getting on a plane in one continent and alighting in another world is the pinnacle of romance. On the other …
The last couple of months have been great for traveling – apart from a longer trip to North India (you may have already seen my post on Delhi) I also had the chance to go camping near Mumbai, two weekends in a row. The cool thing about camping is how self sufficient an activity it is (and …
Why do so many of us work 12 hour days as a norm? Why is it common to have late nights in Indian offices? With so much work going on, surely these companies must be at the absolute cutting edge of their fields. Why doesn’t reality bear that out? I’ve had a chance to …
If you eavesdrop on a typical meeting in an Indian newsroom, especially one where long-term strategy is being discussed, you’ll find that at some point, there will be a dire pronouncement made (usually by the marketing or sales people, who actually have no business being in the room) that audience attention spans are dwindling, for …
Most of the time you wouldn’t associate Indians with something as offbeat as backpacking. Whether it’s the traveling Indian vegetarian chef that accompanies most tour groups or the insistence on visiting only those countries that have been featured as the backdrop to a Bollywood number, the stereotype has been formed: Indians love tour groups and …