Category Archives: Alleppey

Riding the quiet backwaters

(Kerala’s backwaters come alive at the annual Nehru Trophy Boat Races in Alleppey.)

(This piece features in the November 2010 issue of Outlook Lounge. Photos by Anoop Krishnan).

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Notes From Travancore – where there are salesmen, refreshments and murdered romantic notions

A town of salesmen

You have to go to YMCA? Left and straight – half a km” he said, and paused to add, “Do you need a houseboat for tonight, sir?”

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