Byway Experiences

byway undoes everything that is routine, packaged tourism. instead, it gives you a cultural mosaic of places, people, passions, lifestyles, architecture, food, and take-me-home memorabilia, from an india that largely remains unpackaged. byway is the india that lives in several centuries at once. byway - untravel. unravel. this is the premise that byway was started on. to depart from the routine. to rid travel in india of its clichés—snake charmers, the taj mahal, backwaters and palaces and instead, focus on unravelling the hidden treasures of her byways. in order to do that, we had to untravel. remove the stopper on time and pack in experiences of every kind: a home cooked meal in a 2000-year-old village; a handloom tradition that has stayed intact within a family for 13 generations; the must-have breakfast at non-descript eatery just off a busy highway; the mystical powers of a rural god...with every kilometre on the byway map, there emerged an untold story of an india that we might