Our quest for the most beautiful abandoned places in India and the history behind them took us to Ku...

Far up in the Himalayas, a couple of hours drive from the border town of Kargil, further north from...

Ross Island is a tiny little Island at the mouth of the Port Blair Harbour. It is, in fact, the entr...

Talakad has a long history, going back to at least the 8th or 9th century when it was the capital of...

The astonishment of why some places lie abandoned and in ruins does not get more perplexing than thi...

Unakoti is a place in the North East of India where carvings of Gods and Godesses lie abandoned on a...

A couple of hours drive from Jaipur, in the land of a thousand forts, the fort of Bhangarh has consi...

A medieval town of palaces and temples, and while the temples still draw pilgrims by the thousands t...

Human Life has long been intertwined with the course of rivers and their confluence with the great s...

Kittur in Karnataka is a place where the story of one of the first women freedom fighters Rani Chenn...

A thousand years ago, in an age when Buddhism was prominent in Kashmir, Ladakh and Srinagar, an exce...

In the vast territories of the Kutch, on top of a forlorn hillock stands the fort of Roha. Once the...

Its a place where freedom fighters were kept before the independence of India. This place has witnes...

This time our quest for abandoned places and their stories took us to two different places in East R...

A forgotten capital of a forgotten kingdom. Its name today means ruined city, but at the height of t...

The sleepy town of Ramgarh in northern Rajasthan is known by connoisseurs as a unique open art galle...

Standing majestically on a plateau above the flood plains of Kashmir are the stupendous ruins of the...

A place from where lies the story of a once- powerful Ancient kingdom of the Ahom Rulers.This kingdo...

Champaner lies in Gujarat, This town has has seen three kingdoms and their contribution to several f...

Known as the Koh-i-Maran in Persian, the hill of Hari Parbat is crested with a fort of the same name...

There are precious few monuments and artefacts in our ancient land which have survived the vagaries...

Amongst the many scattered battles of the First War of Independence of 1857, none has been eulogised...

Situated in a forgotten part of Bengal, 150kms north-west of Kolkata, is a city that was a proud cap...

On the Konkan coast of Maharastra sits in seeming placidness the serene sea fort of Vijaydurg. A roc...

Hidden in the ravines of the Chambal and protected for centuries by dense forest is an ancient templ...

On the banks of the gleefully wavering Tungabhadra, flanked by mountains made of towering boulders,...

The legend of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and his heroic deeds is so vivid and overpowering in our m...

Rajasthan is replete with forts that are seeped in the royal tradition of valour and sacrifice. Amon...

At the northern edge of the massive Deccan plateau lies a forgotten fort that was once the key to op...

Roll Roll back a century and visit Indias new capital, Daulatabad, declared by Muhammad Tughlaq. Vis...

Akul Tripathi visits the incredible city of Bijapur in this episode of Ekaant. Bursting with nuances...

The historical southern limit of Hindustan and from where the Deccan plateau would begin is the inco...

It is perhaps the oldest surviving fort in India – with references from as far back as the Mahabhara...

Too often, Ekaant (isolation) is associated with ruins. And a place in ruins is heartbreaking, but i...

It takes many rivers to make a sea. And many unnamed rivulets plait together to make that happen. An...

The palace in Leh, the capital of Ladakh, is the picture postcard of the region. An architectural ma...

In what was once the frontier regions of Hindustan, a silent sentinel traces its history as far back...

New Delhi, the capital of India is a city inhabited since time immemorial. The Mehrauli archaeologic...