I am basically from Lucknow and live in Noida. Normally I board a night train to visit Lucknow. We were visiting my parents in Lucknow on new year's weekend and this time decided to drive down because of two reasons. One, we had to pick up some stuff... Read More

Last Saturday (July 15, 2007), I was driving on NH24 as I had some work in Naukuchiatal and thought that I would write a quick Road Review (and about Delhi to Nainital road condition), since there are lots of folks who use this road for going almost ... Read More

After the successful post on Delhi-Agra-Kanpur-Lucknow road review by Aditya, a strong need was felt on having a review of the other road which connects Delhi to Lucknow. In fact there were so many comment on Aditya's post where people wanted to know... Read More

My wife seems to have been smitten by some religious bug. Though I am myself a reasonably religious person (except for after 7 on some days, when the “spirits” of United Breweries, Seagram and Johnnie Walkers of the world, keep on hovering around... Read More

My intention behind writing road-reviews have been to provide necessary information to fellow travelers (read drivers) who wish to undertake that journey. With that thought, probably New Delhi to Patna by road, doesn't make the cut, since not many wo... Read More

Akbar is often remembered as a liberal ruler who expanded Mughal Empire to the vast region but his lust for women is lesser known. The royal complex of Fatehpur Sikri was witness to his typical Mughal attitude towards women. The number of women in hi... Read More

My summer trip to Nainital and then to Corbett started from Lucknow, the place where I live. I initially thought of writing all of this in one long story but someone suggested that it might be better to separate stories, it might be easier to read. ... Read More

The joke of the month is, by fellow Ghumakkar Srijan , that I do not get train tickets. The Indian Railways ticket reservation software refuses to let me in. And I am probably one of the few people after MKG who seem to have been thrown out of the gr... Read More

It was past 3 PM when we were done with our lunch at Jhansi and we gathered ourselves for the last and final leg of our journey towards Khajuraho. Hindi is the primary language of this region and we had no difficulty in getting directions and in a wh... Read More

Last weekend, I drove to Corbett and I discovered few new things and thought that a quick road review would benefit fellow ghumakkars. Delhi - Ramnagar (Corbett is just a little beyond Ramnagar) can be divided into following stretches. 1. Del... Read More

Khurja is a small city (and a municipal board) in the Bulandshahr district in Uttar Pradesh. It is situated around 85 km from Delhi. Actually I had to meet someone there and then complete my official work. I have been to Khurja many times . I used t... Read More

The last time I visited Vrindavan and Mathura was around 3 years ago. This time again I got the chance to visit the holy place. Actually a relative of us had built a dharamshala in Vrindavan. So at its inauguration they invited us. So our 2 families ... Read More

Day 1: Delhi to Varanasi: 5th Feb 2010 (793 km) The journey continues... Thanks for all the comments. And thanks for recharging my batteries. Part 1 was all about our raw excitement. With Part 2, we will try to describe the journey with ... Read More

A business trip for two days to the city of 'Tehzeeb', as Aditya said in his post on Lucknow, had to have some room for non-business activity, even though the activity is in/around an old and charming business center. I was there to pick some brights... Read More

Who has not heard of Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi? The last few lines of one of the most recited poetry in Hindi literature composed by Subhadra Kumari Chauhan on the life of Rani Lakshmibai are here below. During my school days, I've sung it too wit... Read More

Ganga River and Varanasi :- Combination of Shiva and Shakti 10th , 11th and 14th March 2011 , 3 days we were in Kashi and many times again and again we went to banks of Ganga for having her mighty darshan. I will try to put some info on this might... Read More

Hi, I am Shubham Sarcar. I am a student of Delhi Public School. I study in Class IV. I will tell you about my trip to Garhmukteshwar. This was my first trip without my parents and I was very excited. We had to reach school by six-thirty in the mornin... Read More

To begin with my first post, I am expressing my sincere thanks to Nandan and team Ghumakkar for motivating me to drive this long. It has been a long time to complete this tour, but I think it will be worth writing my experience of driving to eastern... Read More

You Ghumakkars are just great. Two weeks ago yours truly had to urgently go on a field trip to Mainpuri. I normally go to Etawah by the Gomti Express and catch a bus to Mainpuri. However on such short notice, IRCTC gave me a wait list a mile long. An... Read More

Hello Ghumakkars, The following post is based on a post originally made by me to a closed Yahoogroup. I am posting this here as I could not resist the temptation of sharing an exhilirating train ride in monsoon here, based on the response that Kar... Read More

Allahabad was our first night-stop on that great drive to orient which I wrote some time back. For a better period of our planing, we were finding ways on how to reach Gorakhpur by first night, we would flip over the maps one more time, calculate the... Read More

In 16th Century, childless and desperate for a heir, The Great Mughal Emperor Akbar undertook a pilgrimage on foot to the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti in Ajmer. On the way he visited Sheikh Salim Chisti – a great Sufi Saint of that time. Sheik... Read More

The "car-driving-bone" was predominantly present, had tickled at will and left it's mark on a number of occasions. In 1995, newly married, from chennai to tirupati, on bike, was it's start. Thereafter, post-arrival of santro, mumbai-lonavala, mumb... Read More

My last road trip to Haridwar was in Feb this year. After this trip again in March this year I did a road trip to Wagah Border.And now after five months here comes my road trip again.This time too during Rakhi Holidays , we again planned a road trip ... Read More

We started at about 6 in the morning from Darbhanga and after one hour, we have covered 12 long kilometers. We were on a six lane East-West Corridor which was being done and I don't need to remind fellow ghumakkars that protests and road-blocks happe... Read More