It took a long-haul flight from Mumbai to Vancouver for me to finally experience a comic bookstore I’d only read about online and watched with envy on The Big Bang Theory . The comic bookstore I went to was on Vancouver Island, in a small, charming place called Coombs, within the district of Nanaimo. Coombs, as many would already know, is famous for its Old Country Market—more popularly known as Goats on the Roof—where a family of goats lives on a low sodded roof. The place i

Every day, an estimated 60,000 cars use the 94-kilometre (58 miles) six-lane Mumbai-Pune Expressway linking the two bustling cities in...

The joy of a weekend outing, a short holiday or a vacation is always greater when you're with people you’re most at ease with. In my case, it’s my family. For several years now, my wife and I have been making regular weekend trips to South Mumbai from our home in the northern suburbs. That part of the city, once a busy commercial hub, still holds a special place for us. It has an old-world charm that seems to belong to another time—shaped as much by memories as by its archite

Lonavala, a hill station near Mumbai in western India, is ideal for a weekend getaway with little or no preparation. It’s the kind of...