[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style=”bordered” css_class=”boxed”]In continuation of our weekly travel column, ‘Wanderlust’, this week Travel Guru, Narendra Agarwal highlights the small town of Saputara in Gujarat that offers everything that one needs to rejuvenate. If you’re tired of the increasing levels of pollution in the city and wish to escape it before the summer vacations end, Saputara…
When it rains, it pours! And it is pouring here in Mumbai and around. The transformation is immediate and obvious. The city transforms with its flooded streets, delayed public transport system and harried commuters. The country side transforms differently. The brown gives way to the green, the white and grey of rivers gives way to…
Mumbaikars! Imagine lounging on a deck chair on the side of a river, feet dipped in cool mountain spring water, day time temperatures hovering around the 18 degree Celsius mark, a cool refreshing drink in hand and the sound of busy birds ringing in your ears. Then, the ding-dong of the doorbell violently pierces through…
She was beautiful. We took her out for a ride. She sounded purrrfect! The ‘THUMP’ was just right on this one year old. This was going to be my ride for the next 10 days! I’m talking about the 350cc Royal Enfield Motorcycle, on which we rode 475 kms from Manali to Leh – what…
It was 5 am in the morning. It was raining. Daylight was breaking behind the mountains on the side of which our cottage was perched. There was an urgency in our movements – we needed to hit the road as soon as possible to beat the tourist traffic which would start pouring in for the…
Isn’t there a connection between the earthy scent that emanates from the soil when touched by the first raindrops, and the nostalgia it triggers? The word describing that scent is ‘Petrichor’. Now if one were to forage the length and breadth of this concrete jungle for that perfect patch of soiled paradise, replete with nature’s…
જ્યારે આપણે રેતાળ સમુદ્ર કિનારાનો વિચાર કરીએ ત્યારે આપણી નજર સમક્ષ સૌપ્રથમ આવે છે ગોવા. હા ગોવાનો દરિયા કિનારો, સફેદ રેતાળ દરિયાકિનારો અને સોનેરી સૂર્યાસ્ત, ગોવામાં રતન જેવા ઘણા જ સુંદર રેતાળ દરિયા કિનારાઓ છે અને આવું જ એક સુંદર મણી જેવું છે ‘હરનાઈ’. મુંબઈથી હરનાઈ ૨૩૦ કિલોમીટર દૂર છે. મુંબઈથી જૂના મુંબઈ ગોવાના બાય…
Parsi Times is proud to showcase a few images taken by and reproduced here with the permission of Burzin Rushi Siganporia – a 24 year old Architect hailing from Surat. He has worked under notable Architects within our community like Hafeez Contractor and Jimmy Mistry. Photography is one of his hobbies. Here are some random…
Travel Guru and Corporate Trainer, Narendra Agarwal is a traveler, photographer and a ‘permanent’ nomad. In twenty eight years of travelling, he has explored twenty seven states and five union territories of India and more than twenty countries neighboring India, Europe and the Far East. He has followed adventure, climbing Himalayan peaks, diving oceans, skiing…