Posted in Published, UK-London on September 23, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Published today in BRUNCH – the Sunday supplement of Hindustan Times, under the title River Town… this is the original piece I had sent then, which was published with a few edits…
Morality and the University
Do you remember the song ‘yeh hai Bombay meri jaan’ from the film CID…? Johnny Walker on the big bad city [...]
Posted in This and that on September 7, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Is it just me or are others out there irritated by the mushrooming ‘recommended by Lonely Planet’ signboards across the country? Every single eatery, guest house and clothes / crafts stall in the bazaar proudly displays it. I cannot honestly say I blame anyone – only foreigners stay the night in Hampi, most if not [...]
Once you have travelled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey - Pat Conroy
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing"
- Daniel J. Boorstin
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware
- Martin Buber
A good holiday is one that is spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours
- J. B. Priestley
For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort
- Aldous Huxley
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