Devasmita joined Ghumakkar in July 2010 and in her first two weeks here, she wrote as many as 7 stories. Her debut story at Ghumakkar was a short trip to Mount St. Helens. It is a brilliant story so if you haven't read it so far, please go ahead and ... Read More

घुमक्कड़.कॉम के पाठकों को नव वर्ष की हार्दिक शुबकामनाएं| "Featured Authors" की श्रंखला में २०१२ जनवरी में ए... Read More

Amit is our featured author for September, 2011 and in continuing with the tradition, we caught up with him over email and phone. I had a frank and rich conversation with Amit over issues from traveling alone to neglect of historical monuments to Shi... Read More

Before I pick my phone to start a conversation with a 'Ghumakkar Featured Author', I do have my share of stage fright. I try to overcome this by reading about the Author from the Bio in his profile. I try to extrapolate a person from those 3 lines of... Read More

घुमक्कड़ पर साक्षात्कार लेने के परंपरा बहुत पुरानी नहीं है | हालांकि हम हमेशा से मौके ढूँढ़ते र�... Read More

In continuing with our series of Interviews with 'Featured Authors', I had the privilege to speak to not one but two avid Ghumakkars in October, 2011. I am usually very ill prepared for one so when I was told at the 13th hour (that is when I was alre... Read More

Unlike my super preparation last month when I was to talk to crazy and idiosyncratic Nikhil, this time I was much more at home. Having known Manish for over a decade and Jaishree since ever she got married, it was more like meeting old friends. I oft... Read More

In the hot summers of 2011, I was working with a new Author Ghumakkar from Mumbai. It was a story on Somnath and just like any new Author, the initial few story preparation times are toughest as I work with them over the software nuances. From typogr... Read More

Archana is our 'Featured Ghumakkar Author' for July 2011 and Vibha caught up with her over e-mail and I had a delightful talk with her over a long distance call. I know, the alert amid you, would have noticed that isn't it the same as last time when... Read More

Anand is our featured author for Aug, 2011 and we caught up with him, discussing things from riding to travel to writing to life in general a while back. Anand is an old warhorse at Ghumakkar and his first account, 2 years back, about Renukaji genera... Read More

Manish and Hindi travel blogging are synonymous. Manish started writing his travel experiences four years back and he is been writing at Ghumakkar for a while now and have already churned out in excess of 20 stories. More often, readers complain that... Read More

It would not be an exaggeration to term my interactions with SS as dynamic, full of energy and interesting. It all began like that from the very beginning. Late last year i.e. 2011, as part of regular interaction with the Authors who submit their sto... Read More

गूढ़ सांख्यिकी में मेरी रूचि कोई खास नहीं रही है, गणित भी जोड़ जाड कर हो गया इसलिए पूरे दावे से स�... Read More

The beauty of knowing someone over internet is that it allows you to paint the other person, define his/her persona and even at times decide on how he/she looks. With every new interaction you build this persona, you add a pair of specs, you make the... Read More

Mahesh joined Ghumakkar more than 3 years back. His presence in the Ghumakkar University has been pretty consistent. No wonder, he won the most prestigious 'Ghumakkar of the Year' award in 2009 and then topped it up in 2010, for his positive encourag... Read More

नमस्कार घुमक्कड़ परिवार | अत्यंत हर्ष के साथ पेश है हमारा मासिक साक्षात्कार अक्टूबर २०१२ माह क�... Read More

For some unknown reason, I was very relaxed on the night when I was to call up Amitava for the monthly interview. It was an unusually warm Thursday evening of April. When the phone alarm called to remind me of the interview, I didn't even get up to p... Read More

I have never done a long distance ride on a motor-bike and besides some city-driving, my experience in motor cycling is negligible. The longest distance that I ever covered on my Bajaj Calibre (The Unshakeable) in a single ride was barely over a 100 ... Read More

Praveen Wadhwa is less than 3 months young at Ghumakkar and has won a lot of admirers in this short span. Armed with an excess of 20 stories, and many more in the queue, his prolific writing has kept a lot of us busy. Starting with Kotagiri, where he... Read More

One fine day, post their business meeting, Sudip Sarcar, father of Shubham,was chatting with Smita Dhall, and shared that his son has scribbled a wrap-up of his recent school trip and whether it would make sense to post it on Ghumakkar. That is how i... Read More

Given an average day, in the backlanes of Ghumakkar, the Editorial team is busy maintaining a healthy roster of high quality, honest and loving posts of travel experiences. We look at the ones which are in the 'review' and place them in the right slo... Read More

If not for Venkat, I would have never known anything about Tiruppur. Upon some initial reading, I came to know that Tiruppur is a big hosiery town of Tamilnadu. I was aware of Ludhiana being a big hosiery town, up here in the north, but as we spoke a... Read More