I feel sorry for all the Japanese people who have visited India, or will do so in the future. Japan didn’t just give me a good holiday during a shoulder season. It gave me a mirror. Every day I spent there, I kept comparing Japan vs India infrastructure, almost involuntarily. And by the end of […]
A Slow Travel Guide to Sydney: What I’d Actually Recommend Sydney gets sold to you in a very specific way before you even land — Opera House, Harbour Bridge, a ferry photo you’ve seen a hundred times on Instagram. And sure, all of that is worth seeing. But the Sydney I actually fell for was
Let’s get the obvious out of the way first: July in Japan is not the “recommended” time to visit. It’s hot, it’s humid, and by 11 AM you’re already sweating through your third outfit of the day. But here’s the thing — we still had one of the best trips of our lives. Why? Because
Becoming a Vegetarian: My Journey and the Moment That Changed Everything In April 2022, I traveled across Vietnam and witnessed something that quietly, but permanently, changed me. I didn’t know it then, but this would become my journey of becoming a vegetarian. No, it wasn’t the raw cuts of meat—I had seen those before. Trust
Whenever I travel to a new country, I have one simple rule: eat what the locals eat. That’s the whole point of traveling for me. I want to taste the food people grow up with, the dishes they crave after a long day, the snacks sold in random corners, and even the weird things that
I was in class 8 when my uncle casually said to me, “You need to start losing weight. Maybe start eating less.” At the time, I was gaining weight, yes, but not nearly enough to be called obese. Still, comments like these had already started becoming a part of everyday conversations around me. On another
