Strangers no more
Harsha Bhogle shifts focus from cricket to travelling. A new show on BBC World News takes him across India. On the run he meets Mathures Paul Taking a break from cricket, Harsha Bhogle recently travelled across India to shoot for a six-part travel show ~ Travel India ~ with a difference for BBC World News. He met strangers, whose lifestyle he had no clue about, whose language he could barely understand. Bhogle started his journey from the desolate Rann of Kutch in Gujarat and then made his way to Bikaner. Moving on, he reached the Golden Temple in Amritsar before travelling to Kashmir where visited Wagah. Moving to a different part of India, he visited Delhi and the holy city of Benares. Without stopping, he headed towards Bihar and then to West Bengal to meet the tribes of the Sunderbans, before travelling to Hyderabad and Nashik (to take a crash course in winemaking). Harsha Bhogle speaks to The Statesman. This is the first time you are hosting a travel show, a pleasant break from cr...