Category: Uttarakhand

Truly Offbeat At Jhaltola, Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand

In This Post: Jhaltola The Misty Mountains Resort Food Activities In And Around Jhaltola Patal Bhuvaneshwar AVANI NGO Lamkeshwar and Other Easier Treks How To Reach Jhaltola In A Nutshell […]

Shoma Abhyankar December 20, 2019 13 Comments

In Photos: Jim Corbett National Park

What begins as a quest for the magnificent striped jungle cat ends in marveling at the beauty of the forest. I would have loved to meet the tiger in its […]

A Woman Of Substance: Organic Farmer Savitri

She is just about high school pass from a remote village somewhere in Kumaon. She was married at a young age. She had her brood of kids at an early […]

In The Land Of Jim Corbett

Known for killing man-eater leopards and tigers of Kumaon region, Jim Corbett’s legend lives on in stories of his hunting expeditions, his house and a single barrel muzzle-load gun in Choti […]

Haridwar – The Treasure of Uttarakhand

When I was a teenager, my parents were located in crime saturated Muzzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh. Haridwar and Rishikesh were the two close destinations where we would often go….it gave […]

In India we have a rich collection of stories for almost everything including names of cities, lakes, rivers, mountains, gods, goddesses, festivals, forests…. According to one such mythological story, the Goddess Sati […]