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Travel with writers' lens
Do you love to travel? Do you also love browsing through travel literature before actually getting to the destination? Geetika Jain shares her experience of armchair traveling.
Where Virgin Mary dwells
It may sound exaggerated but it’s true — one feels a little more ‘complete’ after a visit to the place where Virgin Mary is thought to have spent her last days. Read on to know more.
Meandering in Egypt
Modern Cairo gets maddening and contradictory at times, with its overwhelming layers of 5,000-year-old history, writes Rachna Joshi.
Russian Wild West

Ekaterina Karavaeva, 25, lives in Novosibirsk in Siberia, a spot any adventure traveler may die for. She is the co-editor and project coordinator of www.taktaktak.ru, a social network which deals with human rights.

Coining history along the way
The old Mint House stands witness to the history of Goa and houses as much currency as it has people, over the last two hundred years
Colours of fall
Autumn is a riot of colours where you least expect it to be — Lapland in the Arctic Circle
Sex carved on stone
But there’s so much more to the Khajuraho temples, the earliest of which go back to the 10th century. The exquisiteness of the sculptures, for one, writes Gargi Gupta.
Coining the past
The old Mint House bears witness to the history of Goa by housing as much currency as it has people over the last two hundred years.
Colours of fall
Autumn is a riot of colours where you least expect it to be — Lapland in the Arctic Circle.
A cricket match on the top of Europe?
I wasn’t flying to the land of the Alps to join a film shoot, but for a more exotic reason – to watch some of India’s premier cricketers play ball on top of Europe, at the Jungfraujoch. Tavishi Paitandy Rastogi tells more.
Top 10 honeymoon destinations
No matter the regional differences, modern honeymoons are now a global phenomenon and a multibillion-dollar industry. But where do most couples go for their first days of wedded bliss? Let's find out.
Santorini a geological gem
Greek Island of Santorini gives you the perfect taste of local flavour.
24 hours in Tokyo

Get the most out of the short yet eventful  stay in Tokyo. Bustling and beguiling  Tokyo is one of the world’s biggest, and most influential, cities and a place where old and new sit easily side by side.

Friscocity
With great shopping and greater sights, the city of The Golden Gate more than lives up to its image. Pankaj Vohra writes.
A tourist getaway with hardly any tourists
This could be the poor man’s Jama Masjid. The Walled City’s third largest mosque, circa 1650, has no big domes. Guidebooks don’t go gaga over the place.
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Sutirtho Patronobis on fear of Army coup in Sri Lanka
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Fish move north to beat the heat
According to a study, conducted by the Sea Around Us Project at Canada’s University of British Columbia, India could lose 40 per cent of fish population over the next 50 years, reports Joydeep Thakur.

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