Travel & Leisure US: Hotel Review: Sariska Lodge
Travel + Leisure's It List — the hospitality world's most coveted annual seal of approval — has just dropped its 2026 edition. Culled from nearly 250 properties across 40 countries, only 100 make the cut: the best new and renovated hotels on the planet. Two properties I reviewed, both in Rajasthan, have made it to the list. Congratulations to them.
Travel & Leisure US: Hotel Review: Mharo Khet
Travel + Leisure's It List — the hospitality world's most coveted annual seal of approval — has just dropped its 2026 edition. Culled from nearly 250 properties across 40 countries, only 100 make the cut: the best new and renovated hotels on the planet. Two properties I reviewed, both in Rajasthan, have made it to the list. Congratulations to them.
Hindustan Times: Tulu Nadu
I grew up in Chennai and Coimbatore. My parents are from Palakkad. But the land I am drawn to is Tulunādu, the area in South Canara or Dakshina Kannada.
Poetry: The Fairy Tale Magazine
The Fairy Tale Magazine is gorgeously designed and put together. I am thrilled that my poem has been published in it.
Hindustan Times: Easter in Bangalore
My non-vegetarian friends rejoice whenever Easter comes, and brings with it a feast of their favourite meat dishes.
Destinasian magazine | Hyderabad
There is so much sensuousness in Hyderabad life. Small and big, these folks know how to enjoy and take pleasure from objects and routines.
WSJ: Film Review
About the acclaimed film "Water," by Deepa Mehta which highlights the plight of India's 34 million widows.
WSJ: Women in Indian Politics
India should work towards empowering women economically — through microfinance programs — and also encourage greater participation of women leaders in panchayats.
New York Times | On How to Eat Paan
THIS is how you eat paan in India: You and your sweetheart go to a favorite restaurant and feed each other delicious food till you are so full you can barely stand.
New York Times: Breast Feeding
Years ago, when I lived on the Upper West Side, I used to have coffee with a bunch of mothers from my daughter’s school — the Philosophy Day School, “opposite Mayor Bloomberg’s house,” as we used to tell the taxi drivers. We would drop our children off in the morning and walk around the corner to drink mediocre brew and forge connections at Nectar Cafe.
New York Times: Sacred Sexism
I am a Hindu. I love my religion's glorious and imaginative epic stories, in which seers chose the moment they die and goddesses kill the bad guy while riding a tiger.
List of New York Times articles
I found my articles in the New York Times website by searching its archives (since 1851). They also have some feedback to my pieces which were amusing. You can see the page here Here are the articles themselves. India's Arranged [...]