Hello All, Before everything else, I would like to welcome our brilliant newbies. In case you have missed their debuts, please take a moment now to visit their author pages now: Amit Kumar - His Author Page Amit Narain - His Author Page Bhara... Read More

Dear Ghumakkars, We are growing and we are growing fast. Proof? Well, here is the list of our brilliant new authors this month: Nikhil Chandra Sandeep Panwar Shantanu Sinha Shreeniwas Sharma Sunil Katyal Vaishali Ahuja V. P. Singh Welc... Read More

Hello again Fellow Ghumakkars, We have seen quite a few new authors at Ghumakkar in the last one month and a half. We hope that everyone is already feeling at home here. In case you missed their stories for some weird reason, take a look at their ... Read More

Continuing the tradition from the the last month, let me first introduce you to this month's brilliant debutant Sunil Deepak. In his own words "A doctor based in Bologna (Italy), I often travel in different countries for work. I love travelling and p... Read More

There is no greater delight than preparing for and presenting the top Ghumakkars of 2011; to be able to spend endless hours debating with the jury and the editor and debating the criteria every few hours. Each time one gets into a new round of discus... Read More

Hello Again Dear Ghumakkars! We have had a nice mix of stories from senior Ghumakkars as well as some new authors this month. Let me start by welcoming the new authors. Here they are: Himadri S. Sarkar Kartik Dhar R Niranjan Das Raghav Naran... Read More

2011 is coming to a close and, as you all know, the race for the Ghumakkars of the Year 2011 is now in its final lap. I can well imagine our jury members curled up in their armchairs, holding on to a hot beverage, reading stories, trying to make up t... Read More

To begin with I would like to congratulate the fellow ghumakkars who have already published their stories in the new year and also those who are planning to travel somewhere soon. It is hard to ignore that gentle tug deep inside our hearts that makes... Read More

Dear Ghumakkars, Ghumakkar family is growing constantly and in the past one month, we have had as many as 10 new members write for us: Anup Krishnan Chaitanya Shangloo Jay Kakarla Kapil Aggarwal Manoj Choudhary Ravi Kalra Ritesh Gupta S... Read More

Dear Ghumakkars, Before starting the ride, let me welcome this month's new Ghumakkars. Bipul Dey Sundar Shastry Vishwas Bajaj If you are yet to get acquainted with them, please visit their author pages and leave a comment or two on their ... Read More

Holi hai!!! (abhi na sahi, jaldi hi hai :)) I think our ancestors were really clever when they started celebrating the festival of holi. They gave us a valid excuse to go to school with a hint of pink behind our ears and with bright purple nails a... Read More

In my waking dreams, I often see myself handling an expensive SLR with a huge telephoto lens with an easy dignity or gazing at the flocks of beautiful birds through a pair of expensive binoculars while smartly taking extensive notes. However, if this... Read More

Hello Dear Ghumakkars, First of all, a very Happy New Year to all of you! Hope you have left the hangover behind and are as fresh as a daisy on the first day of 2012. Because if you are alert, you would be surprised by the Editorial coming out on ... Read More

Howdy Fellow Ghumakkars, Hope the travel bug is still biting! Once again, it's time to extend a warm welcome to the new members of Ghumakkar family. This month we have Ashish, Bidisha, Naman, Pooja, and Sanjay joining us with their lovely debu... Read More

Year 2011 will soon be coming to a close and the Editorial team at Ghumakkar has already started the initial discussions for the Ghumakkars of the Year 2011 awards. If you think that you stand a chance of being one of the lucky few who'll receive the... Read More

Hello Dear Ghumakkars, Hope you're all geared up for the upcoming festivals. But even if you are busy, do take time out to say hello to our new Ghumakkars and do leave a comment or two to welcome them to the family. If you haven't read their stori... Read More

If you haven't read the first Editorial published this morning, then I insist that you do so because this editorial won't make any sense to you if you don't. Here is the link. And now for a revelation - following are the only lines from this morn... Read More

Last year in September, I was really happy. One of my most precious dreams was coming true. I was in a tour bus that was travelling through the misty, green highlands of Scotland. We were looking out at the mesmerising terrain of the Isle of Skye, th... Read More

Howdy Ghumakkars! Hope you are having fun and making plans for your next trip! This particular Editorial was going to be about something else altogether. However, there have been several changes at the backend - some good, some that may prove to b... Read More

Over the last complete year, Ghumakkar.com celebrated more than 700 submissions of pure, honest and inspiring travel experiences. To be precise, 2012 gave us a total of '710' travel stories, which translates to almost two stories every day. WOW! A lo... Read More

"Once bitten, twice shy" Or "दूध का जला छाछ भी फूँक-फूँक कर पीता है।" These are some of the proverbs we have practically grown up hearing and, unfortunately, all of us have been �... Read More

Travelers perhaps have more opportunities to run into adventures than anyone else, and are also more likely to find themselves in risky situations. But if they weren’t willing to take risks, they wouldn’t be travelers, right? We pride ourselves i... Read More

“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” This quotation by Greg Anderson is just one amongst the many floating around that glorify journey over the destination. Symbolically speak... Read More

We have been doing the end of month newsletters for a while now and deliberating on making this available at the website as well. Finally, the day has come when it is here. Hopefully we would be able to continue this for coming months and improve the... Read More

Summers are setting in, with a bundle of longer days and summer vacations. The Ghumakkars and their families have a good enough justification to be away from the scorching cities and find some relief in the cool environs of the hills. Europe is at it... Read More