Category Archives: Adventure

by Chitra Iyer AFTER having fortunately sighted tigers at the much-hyped Corbett, Kanha and Ranthambore National Parks, a visit to Periyar Wildlife Reserve in Kerala would prove to be a dampener, so I thought initially. The lust of encountering the … Continue reading →

When 10-year-old Amelia Mary Earhart saw her first plane at a state fair, she was not impressed. “It was a thing of rusty wire and wood and looked not at all interesting,” she said. It wasn’t until Earhart attended a … Continue reading →

by Donald Banerjee THE high school examinations had just got over. It was now a long wait for the results. We four buddies used to sit on a drain overbridge in Lucknow’s Adarsh Nagar till late in the night, keeping … Continue reading →

by Pramod K Chaudhari ROHTANG Pass or “Khuda ke pass?” “We escaped death just by one inch,” said Narendra, the van driver. Only one inch more and the van would have fallen off the treacherous road and we would have … Continue reading →

by Donald Banerjee It was the summer of 1988 when Tribune Photo Editor Yog Joy (now no more in our midst) and I set out from Chandigarh on the trail of a man-eating leopard, who had killed a young cyclist … Continue reading →