If you didn’t really know what it was, it could be very well be mistaken for a name of an exotic cocktail from South America!! Not exactly close, but Rawla Narlai is the name of a sleepy hamlet tucked away neatly in the state of Rajasthan between Jodhpur and Udaipur. I had once read that Mick Jagger had visited the place and I wanted to see what his tastes were like, so decided to follow in the footsteps of the great rock singer. Anu, my wife, is fond of trains... Read More

My daughter, Vanshika, is an “outdoor” person at heart and when she learnt from Devaki Srinivasan, a close family friend of the family, of a trek being organized in May 2013 by the Karnataka Mountaineering Association based in Bangalore, she was all excited and wished to sign up. And I was ‘roped in’ to be the chaperon! The Trek was being led by Vasundhara Srinivasan, Devaki’s sister-in–law and a former Everest climber, with whom I had... Read More

I was with my newly wedded wife Anu in Gangtok for our honeymoon exactly 23 years ago, and ever since, it has become a ritual for us to be “out of town” every anniversary on 27th April! Mrs. & Mr. Melvyn Rothman, our clients visiting India from U.S, second time around with Zutshi Travel World Service, along with two other couples in January 2013, had mentioned about the good time that they had had at the Tea Gardens at Glenburn Estate near Darjeeling, and... Read More

Anu, my wife, had read about a place named Thanedar in the Shimla Hills and so taking a break from the office routine, we decided to hit the road in our Audi Q5. Our houseboy, Bishnu (a Nepali named after Lord Vishnu from the Hindu mythology), has been working for us for past 15 years, and has become an expert in packing a picnic basket for us for our sojourns. So after two hours of driving, we pulled off the highway into some fields and had our breakfast of boiled eggs... Read More