India

For Women Traveling to India

It’s important that women travelers educate themselves to India’s social mores and culture to best prepare for a safe journey.

Despite encouragement to ride first class, a woman decides to take coach and ride with the locals.

Trekking in India with the whole family struck many of our friends as a bad idea.

A volunteer arrives in New Delhi to find she's been reassigned from an orphanage to working at a center for street boys at a railway station.

An extended family braves a trip through India with young children in tow.

Most of Ladakh is higher than 10,000 feet above sea level, and only accessible by road for six months a year.

So much for spiritual tourism! Instead of asking questions at the feet of this sage, questions were being asked of me.

One of India's most famous gurus, Sri Sathya Sai Baba is known for his eccentric looks — wild afro hair and trademark orange robe.

Whenever I find myself glaring at life, I see Satheesh’s smile and his kind caution: “You have only so many days balance. Be happy, only happy.”

A traveler to Varanasi has a fleeting and unexpected encounter with a holy man.

A contrast of two Indias - one out on the streets and one tucked away in homes with air conditioning.

My life began in earnest the day I accidentally started a riot in a railway station in Calcutta.

A mother and young daughter visit an orphanage in India.

Twenty rupees was an insignificant sum of money to me, but it wasn’t the money I was after, it was the upper hand.

Known as the City of Ruins, Hampi is located in India’s state of Karnataka, situated about halfway between Bangalore and Bombay.

My deepest regret was how little I understood about a country my parents once knew better than any other place in the world.