Open Roads
Seeing India through a traveller's eyes
May 15, 2023 / Spotlight
For our 36th edition of Sarmaya Spotlight, we bring you the most picturesque destinations, thrilling travel stories and colourful souvenirs from across the Subcontinent. Watch for new updates every week from 15 May to 15 July, 2023.
On the banks of the Dal Lake with a physician-turned-photographer-turned-mountaineer
Pichwai paintings were born in the temple town of Nathdwara in Rajasthan and centre the 8-year-old deity, Shrinathji
Fanny Parkes's richly illustrated journals give us a sense of the freedom that the author experienced as a woman traveller in 19th-century India
From the Himalayas to the Nilgiris, the mountain slopes of India are home to hill-stations. Built by the British, these were sanctuaries designed to get them through sickness and long summers
Along the ancient Silk Road and the historic Grand Trunk Road lay a series of rest-stops and inns called sarais where caravans of travellers, pilgrims and traders could break their journey
Five books that showcase how the world once saw India
In conversation with professional geographer Dr Manosi Lahiri about the ways in which travellers have helped to draw the map of India