Budget travel in Kerala: Exploring heritage, hills and beaches under Rs 10,000

Radhakrishnan S | October 9, 2025 6:50 PM

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 9 (IANS) Travelling across Kerala on a modest budget is entirely possible if one plans trips well in advance and avoid expensive travel modes. Kerala’s extensive rail and bus networks, combined with budget accommodation facilities and local or street food, make it possible to explore rich cultural, spiritual, and natural destinations within Rs 10,000 per person.

Hungary's Krasznahorkai, whose pensive oeuvre straddles East and West, conferred Literature Nobel

Vikas Datta | October 9, 2025 6:14 PM

New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) In line with the objective of bringing seminal authors to greater global renown, the 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature was conferred on Hungarian litterateur Laszlo Krasznahorkai, whose demanding, yet pensive, post-modern, near-surrealist works draw on the traditions of Nikolai Gogol, Frank Kafka, and Samuel Beckett, but go ahead to span both his Central European milieu and that of the mystic East.