Evolve Back presents a series of expressive stories from our destinations. We hope that these stories encapsulating the lore of the land help foster a deeper understanding and connection between our guests and the places we call home.

Returning to One’s Roots

Published on: 03/11/2025 | Contributors: Sourabha Rao & Santosh Saligram

To be like a kite — to probe the vast ether, to dally with the illusion that the sky is, yet remain tenderly tethered to earth. That is the belonging you witness in those Kodavas who return, year after year, to the Kavadi Bhagavathi Temple festival no matter where life has carried them or where their present ‘home’s now stand.

Tracking Wildlife: What the Sand Tells You in the Kalahari

Published on: 27/10/2025 | Contributors: Sarah Kingdom

In the Kalahari Desert the sand is the storyteller, holding in its grains of sand the history of every creature that’s crossed it - often just a faint indentation in the sand, a single tuft of fur, or a scattering of feathers. To the untrained eye, the land may appear silent and empty. But to an expert tracker, one who can read the land, the sand tells the stories of hunts and escapes, night wanderings and quiet moments of rest.

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Singing of confluences, tangible and intangible

Published on: 21/10/2025 |Contributors: Sourabha Rao & Alok Ranjan

This is a story of confluences. Confluence of rivers. Confluence and faiths. Confluence of cultures. Confluence of architectural styles. Perhaps we could condense all this and call it a confluence of beauty and truth.