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Quirky Wanderer“Travel for me was an escape earlier but now it’s the best source of learning I can ever get. It’s an exchange, between places and me. People and me. Stories and me.” Divsi Gupta shares her adventures around the world at The Quirky Wanderer. Her doors of photographs are especially stunning.
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Kruttika SusarlaKruttika Susarla is an illustrator, comic maker, and graphic designer based in New Delhi. She explores themes of gender, sexuality, and observations on the status quo. Her clean, minimal online portfolio showcases her comics and editorial work.
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The Most Frugal Vacation: A Photography Roundup
Come ride with me as I dream of warmth and spring.
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Monsoon Haiku
Bengaluru, India-based yogi and writer Bernie Gourley captures the city’s volatile monsoon weather in a series of free-form haiku: “trust old people | with umbrellas more than | the blue in the sky”
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When Love Wins
Sahitya Poonacha reacts to the Supreme Court of India’s landmark decision to decriminalize gay sex: “Society still has a long way to go, but now with the court on love’s side, it gives the confidence to the people who are afraid.”
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The Penguin DigestPenguin Random House India is the subcontinent’s largest English trade publisher; on their blog, they share book excerpts, literary news, and interviews, with a focus on South Asian voices.
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What an Amazing World!Jakarta-based Bama spent his childhood dreaming of traveling the world and exploring other cultures — so now he does, and shares his photos and thoughtful observations with us all.
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hAAthi TimeThe personal blog of Revati Upadhya, hAAthi Time is where the food, travel, and lifestyle writer shares her adventures split between two “home ports,” Goa and Bangalore.
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Joshi Daniel on Nine Years of Photoblogging
Joshi Daniel, a photographer from India, celebrates nearly a decade of photoblogging.
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How Responsible Tourism Can Challenge Patriarchy in India
At The Shooting Star, travel writer Shivya Nath writes on the positive social effects of responsible, sustainable tourism.
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My mum, the pilot
Hey Loons’ mother became the first lady pilot in Assam, British India, in 1961: “. . . without radios gaining permission to land was simply a case of circling the airstrip until the light at the control tower turned green.”
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Notes to self
It’s easy to lose track of time on Ranga Rohini’s site, where visual storytelling takes multiple shapes, from striking monochrome photography to sketches based on her wanderings around Chennai, India.
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How to Create a Museum, Wherever You Are
At the TED Ideas blog, a curator and an artist show how they transformed the Mumbai setting of Slumdog Millionaire into a vibrant, community-made museum.
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Home
“India and I are like childhood sweethearts. We’ve moved on to different things, but there’s a special corner in our hearts for each other. I don’t have to choose. Both India and the US are home.” In this piece on family and India, Hema Nataraju reflects on the meaning of home.
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