Charukesi Ramadurai

Freelance journalist : India | Malaysia

Bylines

Read more of my published stories from all around the world…

BBC Travel | The Economist | Nat Geo Traveller | CNN Travel | Prestige | Harper’s Bazaar| A magazine


BBC Travel

~ Malaysia’s spirit of muhibbah (March 2021)
~ The original turmeric latte (June 2020)
~ India’s favourite street food? (June 2020)
~ India’s quarantine culture (March 2020)
~ India’s most content people? (July 2019)
~ India’s magnificent living monument (May 2019)
~ Cracking India’s mystifying head nod code (July 2018)
~ In India, gambling with bows and arrows (May 2018)
~ The Indian burger McDonald’s can’t master (April 2018)
~ The intoxicating drug of an Indian god (March 2017)
~ India’s ancient engineering marvels (January 2017)
~ India’s Scandinavian secret (September 2016)
~ India’s temples of sex (September 2015)
~ Where the Jungle Book comes to life (July 2015)


The Economist

~ When care spirals out of control (August 2017)
~ Training the lens on racism (May 2017)
~ Journey of awakening (December 2013)
~ Colours of the rainbow (November 2012)
~ There once was a blogger (June 2012)
~ Fading lights in Mumbai (July 2011)


National Geographic Traveller

~ 24 Hours in Sheki (January 2020)
~ Utah’s rock stars (January 2020)
~ The wheels of time (June 2019)
~ 29 in 2019 (January 2019)
~ Time stops in Trinidad (December 2018)
~ Coffee, tea or me? (November 2018)
~ The Moor’s past high (October 2018)
~ Spilling the beans (July 2018)
~ The Good life at lebua Lucknow (February 2018)
~ Folk on the water (August 2017)
~ A quick guide to Chettinad (April 2015)
~ Not just a cup of tea (October 2012)
~ Snap judgments (October 2012)


CNN Travel

~ My guide to Gokarna (February 2018)
~ 11 of India’s best beaches (January 2018)
~ A walk in the clouds (March 2017)
~ Mumbai’s best street foods (December 2016)
~ A profile of chef Sanjeev Kapoor (November 2016)


Prestige

~ Song of the sauna (September 2019)
~ Mexico City’s Parisian Panache (June 2019)
~ Gift of the Nile (July 2018)
~ In the land of the Incas (May 2018)
~ Great thundering smoke (December 2017)
~ Port of call (September 2017)
~ Temple splendour (May 2017)
~ All that jazz (February 2017)
~ Will cruise for food (November 2016)


Harper’s Bazaar

~ My lockdown gift to myself (June 2020)
~ The road less travelled (October 2019)
~ City by the sea (October 2017)
~ Follow your bliss (September 2017)
~ Into the deep (March 2017)
~ Winter wonderland (January 2017)
~ Desert rose (December 2016)
~ A sea change (December 2016)