On the eastern edge of Kochi’s rapidly expanding metropolitan sprawl, Kizhakkambalam is one of those places that easily slips past the radar of most travelers heading to Kerala’s better-known backwaters and hill... Read more »

Neraluru is a village in Anekal taluk, Bangalore Urban district, Karnataka, that has managed to hold onto its rural, temple-centered identity even as it becomes an increasingly active corridor of residential and... Read more »

Jakhni is a small village in the Mahua block of Banda district, Uttar Pradesh, that turned itself from a drought-hit, migration-hit hamlet into India’s first self-declared “Jal Gram” (water village) — reviving... Read more »

Kokrebellur (also spelled Kokkare Bellur) is a small village in Karnataka’s Mandya district where thousands of spot-billed pelicans and painted storks nest directly on trees inside people’s backyards, and where villagers have... Read more »

In the dry, undulating landscape of Ahmednagar district (now Ahilyanagar), about 87 km from Pune, sits a village that most maps would otherwise overlook. Ralegan Siddhi has a population smaller than many... Read more »

In the Makhdumpur block of Jehanabad district, barely a few kilometres from the pilgrim town of Bodh Gaya, a village Dharnai, that most of India had never heard of until a decade... Read more »

In the folds of the Shimla district, far from the crowded malls and honking traffic of the capital, lies a village that most travel brochures never mention — Maraog. It is the... Read more »

In the Sabarkantha district of northern Gujarat, roughly 90 km from Ahmedabad and 80 km from the state capital Gandhinagar, sits a village that has quietly rewritten the rulebook on what rural... Read more »

In the region of Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra, Hiware Bazar (also spelled Hivare Bazar or Hivrebajar) is a name that rarely appears on tourist maps but is spoken about with admiration in... Read more »