Soap operas and serials on Indian television during the 1980s and 1990s were often commonsensical, well-written, witty and catered to the whole family.
The quaint little hamlet of Dagshai, in the foothills of the Himalayas, boasts of India’s only other cellular jail, built during the British colonial era.
Beyond the verdant hills of Chail, a quiet hamlet in Himachal Pradesh, never-ending treks lead through sun-dappled backwoods that unexpectedly open up to clear blue skies.
The capital of Himachal Pradesh, once the summer retreat of the British Raj, has been transformed from the historical, colonial “Simla” to the contemporary, urbanised “Shimla.”
On a shabby sidewalk in Jaipur, the Chand brothers continue to practise the lost art of large-format photography through the lens of an 1860 Carl Zeiss field camera.
