Full Stop India

My initial intentions were to label Anthicade Nursery under SKIP/AVOID. This came on the heels of being charged Rs 200 ($4.50) to walk through what I discovered was nothing more than a driver trick. What do I mean by this? Drivers often suggest places to stop, to eat, or to visit that typically are self-serving. [...]

A morning of sightseeing in the hot, unforgiving heat of Madurai actually left me hungry come lunchtime. My driver, Selvamraj, recommended Hotel Supreme as a neat and clean, comfortable place to grab lunch. I took him at his word and climbed the steps into the hotel lobby. Easy signage led me to the entrance for [...]

India’s only camel breeding farm is located in Bikaner, a remote city in the Northwestern area of Rajasthan. Started in 1975, nearly half the camels bred in India come from this farm including those used in the camel regiment of the Indian Army. Formally named the National Research Center on Camel, the center is more [...]

A rock garden may sound like a kitsch project gone awry yet it should be on any tourist’s list of sightseeing while in Chandigarh. Unlike the thread garden in Ooty, Tamil Nadu which I went into with low expectations, and yet somehow even those weren’t met, the rock garden impressed me immensely. Clocking in at [...]

April marks the anniversary of the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab. A group of unarmed men, women and children were fired on April 13, 1919, for more than 10 minutes by 50 British Indian Army soldiers. The number of fatalities varies greatly from 379 to more than 1500 as political backlash kept accurate [...]