Homemade Lemon Cake

After sweating at lower altitudes in Tamil Naru, the hills of Munnar were a welcome alternative. The hills abound with tea here. Tea or ...

We stayed at some beautiful hotels while we were in Southern India, and the Heritage Hotel in Madurai is one of them. It had this spectacul...

On our trip to Southern India we learned a little bit about the Tamil rituals around death. The death ceremony is marked by cremation whi...

We watched a demonstration of lost wax casting of bronze figures in a shop behind the temple in Tiruchirappalli. Dokra (also spelt Dhokra...

Thanjavur Art Gallery, located in the Thanjavur Palace has an exquisite collection of ancient sculptures and coins. It is officially calle...

This is a top five temple, in a trip replete with spectacular ancient temples. I would recommend a slower pace than we accomplished, but t...

In the 17th century India had 20% of the world’s population and accounted for 25% of the manufacturing, which was almost entirely related t...

Airavatesvara Temple was my favorite temple after the temples at Mahabalipuram. This temple, built by Chola emperor Rajaraja II in the 12t...

This place is astounding, And these two pictures are a minuscule representation of what is here—the carvings tell stories, as do the sculpt...

Yet another seaside town on the Bay of Bengal. Pondicherry, India, was under French rule for 138 years, from 1674 to 1954. In 1673, Frenc...