Our quest for the most beautiful abandoned places in India and the history behind them took us to Kuldhara - a vast m...

Far up in the Himalayas, a couple of hours drive from the border town of Kargil, further north from the grand Srinaga...

Ross Island is a tiny little Island at the mouth of the Port Blair Harbour. It is, in fact, the entry point into the ...

Talakad has a long history, going back to at least the 8th or 9th century when it was the capital of the Ganga Kings....

The astonishment of why some places lie abandoned and in ruins does not get more perplexing than this. Off the Konkan...

Unakoti is a place in the North East of India where carvings of Gods and Godesses lie abandoned on a hill. In numbers...

A couple of hours drive from Jaipur, in the land of a thousand forts, the fort of Bhangarh has consistently topped th...

A medieval town of palaces and temples, and while the temples still draw pilgrims by the thousands the majestic palac...

Human Life has long been intertwined with the course of rivers and their confluence with the great seas. Lakhpat is t...

Kittur in Karnataka is a place where the story of one of the first women freedom fighters Rani Chennama lies in a sil...

A thousand years ago, in an age when Buddhism was prominent in Kashmir, Ladakh and Srinagar, an exceptionally visiona...

In the vast territories of the Kutch, on top of a forlorn hillock stands the fort of Roha. Once the biggest jaagir in...

Its a place where freedom fighters were kept before the independence of India. This place has witnessed the torture a...

This time our quest for abandoned places and their stories took us to two different places in East Rajasthan. One, an...

A forgotten capital of a forgotten kingdom. Its name today means ruined city, but at the height of the Hoysala rule i...

The sleepy town of Ramgarh in northern Rajasthan is known by connoisseurs as a unique open art gallery. It is the sit...

Standing majestically on a plateau above the flood plains of Kashmir are the stupendous ruins of the Sun Temple of Ma...

A place from where lies the story of a once- powerful Ancient kingdom of the Ahom Rulers.This kingdom shaped the beau...

Champaner lies in Gujarat, This town has has seen three kingdoms and their contribution to several fortifications.. A...

Known as the Koh-i-Maran in Persian, the hill of Hari Parbat is crested with a fort of the same name. Originally buil...

There are precious few monuments and artefacts in our ancient land which have survived the vagaries of man and time. ...

Amongst the many scattered battles of the First War of Independence of 1857, none has been eulogised in literature an...

Situated in a forgotten part of Bengal, 150kms north-west of Kolkata, is a city that was a proud capital for over 800...

On the Konkan coast of Maharastra sits in seeming placidness the serene sea fort of Vijaydurg. A rock that has been w...

Hidden in the ravines of the Chambal and protected for centuries by dense forest is an ancient temple town. Named aft...

On the banks of the gleefully wavering Tungabhadra, flanked by mountains made of towering boulders, sits, what seems ...