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Rajasthan
Desert ballads & puppet courts
Cloth scrolls unroll the deeds of kings, while marionettes still bow inside the courtyards of Udaipur.
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The Folk Almanac.
a year, in twelve chapters
A gathering for every month of 2026 — one photograph, one little calendar, one kind of wanderer in mind. Tap a month to turn the page.
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Uttarayan Kite Festival
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
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Harvest✓ DoneApr14
for the field-walker
Bohag Bihu Harvest Dance
Assam
Sacred✓ DoneMay2
for the temple-drum lover
Thrissur Pooram
Thrissur, Kerala
Festival✓ DoneJun14
for the desert-dreamer
Rann Utsav Sunset Mela
Kutch, Gujarat
Pilgrim✓ DoneJul5
for the soul-seeker
Rath Yatra Procession
Puri, Odisha
FeastAug22
for the feast-lover
Onam Sadya & Boat Race
Alappuzha, Kerala
SacredSep12
for the mountain-pilgrim
Ladakh Festival
Leh, Ladakh
FestivalOct10
for the night-walker
Durga Puja Pandals
Kolkata, WB
FairNov7
for the caravan-follower
Pushkar Camel Fair
Pushkar, Rajasthan
CulturalDec1
for the tribe-hopper
Hornbill Festival
Kisama, Nagaland
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Day tours you'll remember
Already in India? Don't have a whole week? These are our shortest, sharpest experiences — sunrise to lunch, or dusk to dance. Booked one at a time.
Varanasi
Sunrise on the Ghats
Boat-row at dawn, temple bells, breakfast of kachori-sabzi on a rooftop.
Starts 06:306 wanderers
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Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
The City of Light and Ash
A walk through life, death & liberation in Kashi — old-city lanes, hidden shrines, Manikarnika, ending with the Ganga Aarti.
Starts 16:00Small group · Max 8
View DetailsBhilwara, Rajasthan
Phad Painter's Workshop
Grind your own pigments, sit beside Shri Lal Joshi, leave with a scroll of your own.
Starts 07:004 wanderers
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Kannur, Kerala
Theyyam by Firelight
Watch a god be painted onto a man. Tea, talk and a temple meal afterward.
Starts 16:008 wanderers
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Vadodara, Gujarat
Garba Under the Marigold Moon
A borrowed chaniya-choli, one rented dandiya stick, nine full circles of dance.
Starts 17:3012 wanderers
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Patiala, Punjab
Phulkari Embroidery Morning
Sit in a courtyard with three generations of embroiderers, learn the wedding stitch.
Starts 05:006 wanderers
View DetailsKhonoma, Nagaland
Hornbill Trail Walk
Walk into Asia's first green village with a Naga elder. Lunch of smoked pork and rice beer.
Starts 08:005 wanderers
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Featured Journal
June 09, 2026
The Last Phad Painter of Bhilwara
Shri Lal Joshi never trained at an art school. He trained on a thirty-foot scroll, beside his father, beside his father's father — six generations of Phad painters tracing the same stories of Pabuji and Devnarayan onto cotton softened with rice paste. We spent three days inside his Bhilwara workshop, watching pigments ground from indigo and lac being mixed by hand, watching one slow line at a time become a horse, a sword, an entire ballad. This is the story of how a single house keeps a four-hundred-year-old language alive — and of the granddaughter who, against every odd, has decided to pick up the brush.
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