Salil Deshpande

Nov 24, 2024 | traveler.es | Salil Deshpande

Muchos hoteles en Agra prometen vistas del Taj Mahal, pero pocos pueden cumplir la promesa como este. Mientras otros cumplen a duras penas las expectativas y si acaso muestran un trocito de la cúpula desde una esquina concreta, lo normal aquí es que pases toda tu estancia haciendo lo que sus creadores pretendían: contemplar extasiado el Taj Mahal.

Oct 29, 2024 | cntraveller.in | Salil Deshpande

In 2007, The Washington Post set up an experiment. It asked the great violinist Joshua Bell to go incognito, dress like a regular busker, and play on the Washington DC Metro. Just three days before, the virtuoso had sold out Boston’s Symphony Hall. On that day, at the L’Enfant Plaza station, Bell pulled out his magic wand—a Stradivarius violin handcrafted to perfection nearly three hundred years ago—and played a medley of the greatest compositions from Bach to Schubert.

Oct 28, 2024 | cntraveller.de | Selina Denman |Chandrahas Choudhury |Salil Deshpande |Clare Dight

Kleine Hotels in Sri Lanka: Das sind die besten Adressen in tropischer Natur. Paradiesische Strände, majestätische Berge und Wälder, reiche Artenvielfalt und Spiritualität – dafür ist Sri Lanka bekannt. Dafür reisten bereits 2024 über eine Million Tourist:innen in das Land. Und auch diese kleinen Boutique-Hotels sind Gründe, warum die nächste Flugroute gerne ganz bald nach Südasien gehen darf. Klein, aber fein: Die 6 schönsten Hotels in Sri LankaIn Sri Lanka möchte man der Natur ganz nah sein.

Oct 23, 2024 | cntraveller.in | Salil Deshpande

Ten years after he first went to Cuba, photographer Rohit Chawla returned on assignment to shoot Havana, its culture and its cigars. He came back lighter than planned when his cigars worth nearly a thousand dollars were seized at Miami airport. “Like an honest Indian, I disclosed that I was carrying Cuban cigars,” he says. Not only were they confiscated, Chawla would later be put through an interview by the US embassy when he reapplied for a visit.

Aug 13, 2024 | cntraveller.in | Salil Deshpande

If there was a way to measure these things, Bharatbala Ganapathy can claim to be the filmmaker to have induced the most amount of goosebumps across India over the past three decades. Through films like Maa Tujhe Salam, with AR Rahman; Vande Mataram, with Lata Mangeshkar, and Jana Gana Mana rendered by a panoply of India’s greatest artistes–not to mention that version shot with the Indian Army in Siachen–Bharatbala has managed to arouse India Pride in a way few others have.