Grumpy Traveller: Berth woes

A passenger may end up with a side berth even after booking a ticket two months and three-and-a-half weeks in advance on the IRCTC website


The many museums of Bhopal

Bhopal is home to a clutch of very interesting musums such as the Bharat Bhavan, Museum of Natural History, State Museum and also an anthropological museum


A much-cited Himalayan trail

The Kuari Pass trek in the Garhwal Himalaya received three great short biographies in three classic mountaineering books of the 1930s


A ‘crazy’ camera

Easy to use, the unusual-looking 16 megapixel camera, HTC RE, comes with an ultrawide-angle lens


Grumpy Traveller: Pillow talk

Staying at hotels which have gendered pillows, for –ladies– and –men–, not to mention the hypoallergenic and organic, and also anti-ageing pillows


Tennis at Rose Park

Rose Park, in Washington, DC, to the author, is a world marked by generosity and the unalloyed pleasures of aimlessness


A short history of airline seats

The airline seats have witnessed an exciting journey – from the WWI’s wicker chairs to the seats made of thin nylon mesh a.k.a chair of the future!