Travel blog about traveling through India

Pune may be a microcosm of India: traditional and modern all at the same time.  And it seems well represented vis-a-vis the things that bring foreigners to India or put…

Ok, so let me backtrack a bit here.  I am a bit embarrassed to say that I was prepared to find India hard to love.  Perhaps that's an understatement.  I…

Today I'm in Pune which is also acceptably spelled Poona.  I'm about four hours from Mumbai - in fact it's hard to tell where Mumbai ends on the train ride…

Yesterday I had a very Bollywood day -- Bollywood being the Indian movie industry headquartered here in Mumbai. As often happens here, a casting agent showed up at my hotel…

According to a number of surveys I am now in the world's most populous city, Mumbai (i.e. the city formerly known as Bombay). I read Suketu Mehta's Maximum City before…

Greetings from Gujarat.  I'm in Ahmedabad - which, to be honest, I'd planned to transit and then I figured I needed a break after 10 hours of bone-rattling bus travel…

A few nights ago I woke up, pulled a stack of covers that covered my head and looked around.  Framed by a full moon against a dune sandscape was an…