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Stuffing Your Belly in Delhi

May 5, 2008

Food personality Andrew Zimmern was recently in Delhi – to eat, eat and eat! He ate a lot, at a lot of different places – glittering dining destinations in posh New Delhi restaurants, traditional eateries in the dingy alley ways of Old Delhi, roadside stalls and confectionery and even sacred temple offerings in a Gurdwara.…
Boulevard of Broken and Burgeoning Dreams

January 21, 2008

In remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, today’s Houston Chronicle has an interesting article on Houston’s MLK Blvd – its past and its present. MLK Blvd in Houston runs from the southeastern part of the city near Hobby Airport , north to the University of Houston. It is a long, mostly residential street with…
On The Road With Jesus

September 29, 2007

Sam Fentress is a Jack Kerouac of sorts. He travels the roads of America looking to find not himself but Biblical signs and bill boards – messages to praise and persuade. In his many sojourns he has found farmhouses, grain silos, restaurants, hair salons, gas stations and even traffic signs bearing Biblical messages. An artist…
Sanctioned Foods and Forbidden City

September 24, 2007

Usha Alexander and Namit Arora recently returned from a trip to China. Their observations on China’s Forbidden City and wide range of gastronomical delights at Shunya’s Notes.
Blogging From The Top Of The World!

May 22, 2007

Eighteen year old Samantha Larson of Long Beach, California has climbed the highest seven mountain summits on all continents. On May 16th she reached the top of Mount Everest, making her the youngest American to have achieved this feat. During her Everest climb she packed her oboe along with her climbing gear so as to…
A Smoldering Paradise

April 2, 2007

A lovely piece of travel writing by Usha Alexander here. Her article has been included in The Best Travel Writing for 2007 by Travelers’ Tales. Alexander recounts her days as a Peace Corps volunteer in the remote region of the archipelago of Vanuatu.
Anandpur Sahib Revisited

March 8, 2007

Shunya’s latest post about the Sikh Gurdwara (temple) Anandpur Sahib took me far down the memory lane. I had visited this beautiful place in my late teens. I don’t remember too many of the details now. But I did make a sketch of the lovely structure which amazingly is still in my possession (most of…
Tehran – More Than An Islamic Megapolis

February 27, 2007

Iran is much in the news these days. Most of the US media coverage of Iran is concerned with Islamic extremism, the nascent nuclear program that has the Bush administration on a war footing, Iran’s meddling in Iraqi affairs and of course, the theatrics of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But Iran is a large country…
Step Across the Border

February 7, 2007

Came across this charming little travel tale (via Amardeep) in the New Yorker. Polish travel writer Ryszard Kapuscinski reminisces about the first time he stepped out of his homeland and landed in … India (via a short stop in Rome). The India he describes is of another era – from the 1950s. Much has changed…
Mountainous Envy or Colossal Blunder?

January 15, 2007

Grass is greener on the other side of the fence. For one Nepalese airline employee, the mountain is more majestic on the other side of the world. In a baffling (and embarrassing) move, the scenic country of Nepal which is located in the foothills of the spectacular Himalayas, publicly misrepresented its natural environments. In a…
Desolate Desert & Painted People

December 15, 2006

Iceland, Mongolia, Siberia, Tibet, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Iran, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Morocco, Algiers, Botswana, Bolivia, Paraguay, Antarctica. These are some places that I would love to visit one day but probably never will. During childhood and youth, certain places and people capture one’s imagination for no reason other than a fleeting glimpse into their…
Buddha and Mickey Mouse

September 19, 2006

My week long trip to Japan is over and it is nice to be home. Our flight in each direction was delayed by more than three hours. On the way up, a thunderstorm over Osaka prevented the plane from landing and we had to cool our heels on the tarmac in Nagoya until the skies…
Japan etc.

September 8, 2006

I will be leaving for a short trip to Japan tomorrow – a little more than a week. I am eagerly looking forward to my visit . I have been to Japan before and fondly remember some incredibly enjoyable experiences there. I will therefore not be blogging for all of next week and perhaps not…
Rakhi – An Indian Festival

August 9, 2006

Today is the festival of "Rakhi" which stands for the more descriptive Raksha Bandhan, translated literally to mean the "Bond of Protection." Like many other Indian festivals, the event is marked by the phase of the moon, rather than a specific date on the calendar. It is celebrated during the full moon of the monsoon…
So, this is the coolest thing ever…

May 13, 2006

…or maybe it’s just because I have a thing for books. And another for Wales. There’s a review up at the New York Times (sorry, free registration required), covering both the travel and the Welsh book festival: THE tiny town of Hay-on-Wye in southeastern Wales seems like a curious place to hold a major literary…

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