“If Spain is known for bull flights, India should be known for snake boat races,” Dr P Vasudevan of Vasundhara Sarovar Premiere tells me. We are sitting in an enclosure by the edge of the Punnamada Lake in Alleppey. Around us hundreds of people are chanting, singing and cheering. “And betting too,” adds Dr...
A Day in Kochi

They say no visit to Fort Kochi is complete without seeing the Pardesi Synagogue. And, on our day trip to Kochi last December, my husband and I shot around the old port town trying to “see” as many places as we could. And when it was almost time to leave, we realized we had...