Shalini and Nitin Beri were creative heads at major communications companies in Mumbai and Delhi.
Category: Manali / Kullu Valley, Himachal Pradesh
Manali is the Himalayas at their most accessible — a valley town in Himachal Pradesh where the Beas River flows cold and fast through pine and deodar forests, the Rohtang Pass leads to the high-altitude desert of Lahaul and Spiti, and the ancient hill towns of Naggar and Vashisht offer the quieter, deeper version of a landscape that the Mall Road crowds have only partially reached. Come for the mountains, the adventure, and the extraordinary light of a Himalayan valley. Stay long enough to find the villages, the orchards, and the places that have not yet been converted to tourism.
At the point where the Beas and Manalsu rivers come together in Old Manali, Maheshwar
In the quiet hamlet of Pangan, away from Manali’s tourist rush, an architect named Sherab
Swati Seth left city life for the mountains of Naggar, started hosting women in her
Vasti means home in Sanskrit. Mayuri Sinha trained to be a dentist, then went to
