Shantiniketan-Beyond tagore

India & You

July-August 2016

At a time when India boasts of being world’s fastest growing economy with GDP growing at 7.6 pc a year, many of its 600,000 villages seem to have been at a standstill since the independence. The challenges of the villages remain the same as those decades ago – poverty, hunger, lack of proper sanitation, education, casteism to name a few. We bring to you a comprehensive view of the rural India with challenges, traditional solutions and a few innovative steps such as the rural tourism. We also take you have a taste of rural India to Shantiniketan near Kolkata. Then to Lolab valley, one of the many virgin destinations in Jammu & Kashmir and the hill destinations of Coorg the Western Ghats of Karnataka where Tamara, a luxury resort, will take care of your indulgences in the abode of nature.