The reDiscovery Project

reDiscovery Podcast S3E9: A unique Ganpati celebration in a 400 year old Goan family’s heritage home

In September 2017 we spent a couple of weeks driving around Goa, during the tail end of the monsoon, which happened to be the same time as the Ganesh Chaturthi festival. While Hoshner has often photographed the Ganesh celebrations at home we have never really experienced the festival outside of Mumbai. So when a friend…

Vengurla’s fisherwomen – conservationists & a boat ride with a difference

It was 7:30 am when we clambered into the boat with Shweta Hule and her two companions dressed in crisp colourful saris. Despite it being february and the early hour it was already getting warm and we were thankful for the cool breeze over the creek. We had hardly pushed off when one of the…

reDiscovery Podcast S3E8: Steve Odoyo and his quest to bring back the animals

The North East conjures up images of thick forests, beautiful mountains and an abundance of nature, all of which is true. However, what is also true is that a number of traditional practices of tribes in the North East like jhum cultivation and hunting has over the years lead to slow but steady deforestation and…

Four of our favourite places to eat from our Maha roadtrip!

One of the first places I ate at after moving to Bombay was Gajalee, thanks to a Maharashtrian friend. We went to the one in Vile Parle, an old establishment and local favourite as evidenced by the crowd outside. My friend ordered and we stuffed ourselves with several plates of fried bombil that simply melted…

reDiscovery Podcast S3E7: Devrai Art Village, providing dignified livelihood through art

Two monsoons ago we were driving through Maharashtra heading southwards across the Western Ghat on a roadtrip which we eventually had to abandon due to excessively heavy rainfall, flooding and collapsing bridges. Our last stop on that leg of adventure, which involved climbing up forts in the pouring rain with absolutely no visibility, was the Devrai…

Korlai: A Portuguese speaking village on Maharashtra’s Konkan coast

Over the last couple of years of travelling and documenting our journeys on our blog we have built a vibrant community of like-minded travel junkies who are as enthused about the idea of discovering more of India as we are. Often when we are travelling through a state, locals following our journey on social media…

reDiscovery Podcast S3E6 – Umoja: Making travel accessible for the disabled

We met Yeshwant at a party last Diwali, which is where we learnt about Umoja and the work Yeshwant is doing to make travel accessible to all, especially those with physical disabilities. Over future meetings we learnt more about him and his incredible company which for the last couple of years has been working with…

Pinguli’s Kala Aangan that preserves the dying art of the Thakkar community

You should meet Chetan and check out the Thakkar art, I think you’ll find it interesting. This is how many of our journeys begin and this suggestion from a fellow traveller, when we were researching stuff to explore on our Maharashtra road trip proved to be an excellent tip! Pinguli is a little town on…

reDiscovery Podcast S3E5: One family’s quest to preserve their unique ancestral home

We love old heritage homes and since this season is all about the preservation and conservation of art, culture and heritage we thought it would be great to feature the story of Maranat Mana, one of the last living Pathinaru Kettus or four courtyard homes in Kerala and the unique manner in which one Namboodari Brahmin…

Exploring Dapoli: An offbeat weekend getaway

The black sand was soft and gooey under my floaters. I debated walking barefoot but decided against that. There was utter chaos in front of me, or what seemed like chaos but was in fact a highly organized, well-oiled machine, otherwise known as the Harnai fish auction. Far out in the sea were the large…

reDiscovery Podcast S3E4: A Konyak Naga documents her tribes dying tattoo culture.

The North East of India is a region like no other. With hundreds of tribes, each with different customs, traditions and dialects it is as diverse and culturally rich as anywhere else in the world. However with the relentless march of time many of these traditions are getting lost in the swirl of modernisation, not…

Maha Roadtrip 2.0! Rebooting our journey down Maharashtra’s Konkan coast

In the monsoon of 2016 we embarked on a road trip from Bombay down to southern Maharashtra. The plan was to drive till Amboli down the western ghats and back up the Malvan and Konkan coast. The plan was great, but the weather gods played spoilsport. We had only made it a little beyond Matheran when…

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