Read This Before You Plan Anything Else There’s a particular kind of regret that only mountain people understand. Not the regret of doing something. The regret of not going. The tab you kept open for eight months, the screenshots folder…
There is a restaurant in South Mumbai where the furniture hasn’t changed since 1871. The menu hasn’t changed much either. The waiters — dressed in the same white uniforms their predecessors wore — move through the dining room with the…
A Letter to the Friend Who Keeps Postponing This Trip You’ve had the tab open for two years. You’ve saved the Instagram reels. You’ve said “this year for sure” approximately four times. You have a Pinterest board called “Ladakh someday”…
The first time I had a Vada Pav in Mumbai, I was standing outside Dadar station at 8am, slightly lost, in the middle of a crowd moving with the confident urgency of people who had somewhere to be. A man…
I didn’t expect Kerala to stay with me the way it did. I’ve done the Rajasthan circuit. I’ve navigated Bangkok solo at midnight. I’ve eaten my way through Penang and pretended to understand wine in Tuscany. But there was something…
Every time someone says “I want to go to Goa,” at least three people around them go “oh bhai, Goa is so expensive now.” And honestly? Those people are not entirely wrong. Goa has gotten pricier — especially if you’re…
