Posted in Published, The hills are alive on February 28, 2008 | 5 Comments »
My piece on Mcleodganj appeared in Mint Lounge last weekend. You can read it on the mint website (if that makes any difference)… The Tibetan book of living, in pdf form here…
And for those too weary to click, read on here…
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On any quiet morning, the reverberations of “Om mani padme hum” seem to rise from [...]
Posted in Dubai, Published on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The lesser known Dubai, in today’s HT Cafe… (as always, link valid only for a week, so read now, else see photo and sigh deeply in regret for having missed the article)
More photographs from the colors and chaos of Dubai here…
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Here is the article as I had originally written it…
Souk shopping in Dubai
In all the [...]
Posted in This and that on February 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am going through mild depression after having to cancel a holiday in Spain at the very last minute. Make that severe depression since one of the reasons is a bad back that seems to stay bad. And strangely, instead of dreaming about Spain and what might have been, I find myself dreaming of airports. [...]
Posted in Cities that never sleep, Colors of the desert, Published on February 3, 2008 | 9 Comments »
I had written a piece on Mohammad Ali Road – that appeared in this edition of Taste & Travel magazine along with another article on Shekhawati. Here is the iftaar piece…
Don’t worry, you will smell it much before you see it, said my cabbie when I asked him to drop me close to the [...]
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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