Tag: festival

Festival Of The Month: Theyyam

Winter is the best time to be in Kerala. Or that’s what the guidebooks say. The days are pleasantly warm, the evenings cool. The fish is fresh, the backwaters alluring as ever and the hills fragrant with the aroma of spices and tea. Winter in Kerala is special for one more reason — Theyyam. If you happen […]

Festival Of The Month:The Jagannath Rath Yatra

The air is thick with devotional frenzy and the excitement is palpable. A crowd flows into every nook and corner of the town as Puri enters the annual celebration of the Rath Yatra. The most colourful festival on the eastern coast of India, this is the only one dedicated to the Jagannath triad: brothers Jagannath […]

The India Festival Calendar: July–August

It’s that time of the year when the scorching summer sun makes way for the thick puffy clouds, and opens up many travel options for the monsoon lover. Celebrate the onset of the monsoon season and attend some of these exciting festivals. Watch the topography of the country explode into a thousand shades of green, with […]

The Indian Festival Calendar: April-May

Just about the time when the earth starts cracking with heat and harvesting activities commence fervently in the northern states of India, the only thing that offers respite is a number of local spirited festivals.  Here’s our pick of some of the most intriguing ones across India in the months of April and May! Dust […]

Battlefield Punnamada

As the small town ofAlappuzhabids adieu to the resilient but cathartic monsoon rains, it embarks on the next arduous display of determination in the month of August – The Nehru Snake Boat Race. Peg the bone-drenching rain versus the grit of the oarsmen of the race and you would struggle to establish the stronger contestant. […]