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.
Open Roads
Seeing India through a traveller's eyes
Souvenir series: A rare photo of Dal Lake in the 1800s
On the banks of the Dal Lake with a physician-turned-photographer-turned-mountaineer
Souvenir series: Pilgrims to Nathdwara take these paintings home
Pichwai paintings were born in the temple town of Nathdwara in Rajasthan and centre the 8-year-old deity, Shrinathji
Souvenir series: Notes from a solo woman traveller in India
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
Summer Holidays: The origin of India’s hill-stations
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
Mughal Sarais, where caravans & cultures mingled
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
Destination India, a reading list
Five books that showcase how the world once saw India
Hidden Figures: Colonial artists and Calcutta as muse 
India before Independence: Smaller struggles for freedom 
Lights, Camera, Calcutta! 9 films that capture the magic of the city 
Worshipping water – Faith & conservation in Indian culture 
PRIVACY POLICY 
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Empire of Faith: Into the realm of the Buddha & the Mauryas