About Kalpana
I am an independent journalist based in Chennai, India. I write on travel, gender, development, conservation, environment, pop culture, food, art and architecture. My life-changing trip was in 2001 when I traveled through Japan on a Japan Foundation Scholarship. Since then I have had a cooking lesson in a medieval kitchen in Avignon; flown over the Victoria Falls in a microlight, snowmobiled in Lapland, walked with the lions in Zimbabwe and floated on the Dead Sea in my search for a good travel tale.
