India Travel Podcast with Arjun Mehta

Arjun Mehta presents a podcast about travelling in India as a resident would over a couple of years: settle in one place, learn it, then move somewhere connected to it. India’s distinctiveness is its overlapping geographies — the crowded Ganges plain, the desert west, the high Himalayan north, and the southern plateau. The range covered includes Old Delhi and Kolkata, the Deccan Plateau around Hyderabad, Chennai on the Bay of Bengal, and the Kanchenjunga massif on the Nepalese border. These places connect through history and movement: the Ganges plain, the southern plateau, the eastern coast, and the mountain fringe. The podcast unfolds in seasons rather than a checklist. After arriving somewhere, Arjun stays for weeks and returns across the year, so a city is seen through monsoon, winter, summer, and harvest. Slowly, a place stops being a stopover and becomes somewhere known by its daily rhythms and recurring faces. Arjun Mehta lives in India and stays for two