Here’s a piece of geographical trivia: India and Australia were once connected as part of the supercontinent Pangaea. The landmasses drifted apart millions of years ago, but even today their contours fit like pieces of a complicated puzzle. On a recent trip to...
Going to Ko Samui?” My friends looked at my itinerary and hastily added a corollary. “You will come home, right? With temptations like the beryl sea, the silken beaches in the island, Thai curry …” Trust friends to know your true loves. My friends know I can dip my...
“Salaam.” It was a dark night, the stars stupefied in the sky, the trees slumbering, the streets forlorn. Oslo, with its undulating landscape humming in a language I could barely decipher, looked so unknown, so unfamiliar. And then I heard the “Salaam.” I...
“Kurseong.” “You would enjoy every moment of your stay in this quaint town; be our guest.” An afternoon long-distance call had me thinking. I had heard of Kurseong, but where? No, not in my geography class; certainly not. I kept raking my memory and then...
Knowing what a day can pack within its hours can be such a droll, especially when meeting people and writing about them gets your bread and butter. The hip and the happening, the ogres and the angels, the rich and the renunciate, all walk in and out of the door...
