Little did I know that these words by American essayist, poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson would define my trip to the Rann of Kutch. The trip got off to a rocky start with my flight from ...

Piyaro Shavani, a 47-year-old local activist and tourism promoter, knows the Gadroo Rann like the back of his hand. He has spent seven nights in this vast, salt-encrusted wilderness — two in ...