Panjim actually has three very different shopping personalities, and it’s worth knowing which one you’re walking into before you go. Head to Caculo Mall or MG Road and you get familiar, global fast fashion – Pepe Jeans, Levi’s, Westside, Max, Nike, the same chain-store rhythm you’d find in most Indian…
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Goa has quietly become a serious craft beer state. Between the beach shacks and the feni stalls, there’s now a whole scene of people brewing their own pilsners, ciders, and pale ales – and building entire evenings around them. I’m not much of a drinker myself, but I’ve spent enough…
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South Goa is full of restaurants that quietly go about their business without much fanfare. No flashy signage or elaborate interiors. No social media teams posting cinematic reels online… many local restaurants in South Goa don’t even have a social media profile to begin with. Most are family-run, wonderfully unpretentious,…
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If you’re travelling to Goa and haven’t put “watch a sunset with a cocktail in hand” somewhere on your itinerary, I’m not sure what you’re doing here. Goa takes its sunsets very seriously, with entire evenings planned around them and with tables booked hours in advance. People abandon perfectly good…
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Panjim has no shortage of places to eat. Whether you’re looking for a quick breakfast, a neighbourhood café, a late-night bite, a family restaurant, a bar with good cocktails, a budget-friendly meal, a bakery, or somewhere to work from for a few hours, you’ll find hundreds of options scattered across…
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Hello hello! This blog post is a little different, because I don’t have much to say – and I don’t want to overthink it. This trip to Chopta, in Uttarakhand, was more of a slow, do-nothing kind of scene. I’ve always liked the idea of doing nothing. But alas, maybe…
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Goa is no longer the “cheap beach destination” people still imagine it to be. Between ₹600 cocktails, ₹1200 breakfast bills, absurd peak-season hotel rates, overpriced scooter and car rentals, and the legendary taxi mafia ensuring every short ride feels like an international transfer, Goa can drain your wallet faster than…
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The first time I went to Rishikesh, it was exactly what I expected it to be – cafés spilling out onto narrow lanes, yoga studios tucked into every corner, the Ganga moving steadily alongside it all, and a kind of chaotic calm that only a place like this can hold.…
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Panjim isn’t a place I “go out” to. It’s where my week happens. Meetings spill into coffee, coffee turns into lunch, and sometimes I’m just there because I have an hour to kill between two things. Over time, you start to build a mental map – not of landmarks, but…
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I’ve always liked pairing destinations. So on this trip, after visiting the largest lake in Kerala (Vembanad Lake in Kumarakom), it felt only right to check off the state’s most famous waterfall too. After our stay in Kumarakom, we drove to Kochi to spend the night and break the 100…
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The living root bridges of Meghalaya are self-strengthening natural structures formed by training the aerial roots of Ficus elastica (rubber fig) trees across rivers and streams over decades until they intertwine into load-bearing bridges. They are a living, growing form of architecture found nowhere else on Earth, and they get…
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