Get your rickshaws ready, because our next rally is coming up in just over a month! From Bollywood to Kollywood, the Chennai Xpress will race you from Mumbai to Chennai, crossing an epic 1300km across Southern India through the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Kicking off in Mumbai, one of India’s craziest cities...Read More
Lea Beyeler and Yannick de Zordo share their trip in India: from Chennai to Mumbai, through amazing places in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Goa and Maharashtra. “We spent one month on a trip from Chennai to Mumbai passing beautiful spots in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa and Maharashtra. Here are our two travel perspectives – hope...Read More
South India has 4 different major states, but people in north, east and west end up calling all of them Madrassi. Here’s a general explanation of who lives in South India, and what is peculiar about each of the major states, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. “South India is the area encompassing India’s...Read More
India is different. If you’ve been there or planning to go there, you’ll find out this fact soon enough. And if riding across South India in a Rickshaw isn’t crazy enough for you then check out these weird sites in the area. Ramanujan Museum, Chennai One of the academic bad boys of Chennai, mathematician Srinivasa...Read More
Spicy curries, ancient temples and lively crowds – what makes South India so special when compared with the rest of the Indian sub-continent? South India’s Dravidian culture differs from the Indo-European one in the north, complete with its own architecture, culture and attitude. But South India has more than just cultural incentives to pull the...Read More
Exploring the streets of Chennai with Rowan Lee Hartsuiker. India is a busy country. In this short film I point the camera on the streets of Madras (Chennai), a city in Tamil Nadu, South India. The streets of Madras are in every possible way full of life and energy. Of course also full of contradictions...Read More
State Highway 49, aka East Coast Road is a two lane highway in Tamil Nadu, India, built along the coast of the Bay of Bengal connecting Tamil Nadu’s state capital city Chennai with Cuddalore via Pondicherry and up to Tuticorin. Here’s an East Coast Road drive clip, filmed & edited by Pierre-Emmanuel Testard East Coast...Read More
Two-thirds of India’s population of a billion people live in the nation’s 600,000 villages. Despite India’s economic growth, the disparities between wealth and poverty are enormous. Many villagers migrate to the cities in search of work and end up begging on the streets. From Salem, South India, bank manager J S Parthiban set out to...Read More
