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Meals ready, Marianne 7 Aug 2010 | 05:47 pm
My essay about driving south last May through aamchi country to see, among other things and people, Marianne - is in Mint today: Meals ready, Marianne. The top left photograph of the four they have p...
Myth grows in Baracoa 18 Jun 2010 | 07:11 pm
The June 2010 issue of Jetwings International, the inflight magazine of Jet Airways, carries this essay I wrote on a fabulous little town in Cuba. Comments welcome! *** The Hotel La Rusa, painted a...
Dream Run 7 Nov 2009 | 02:03 am
India Today Travel Plus has a November '09 issue highlighting railway journeys. I have an essay in there, about travelling the Konkan Railway route south along the coast from Bombay into Kerala. Appe...
Waiting for dal-fry 31 Oct 2009 | 04:47 pm
Lunch on the road through MP one sunny day is at the Jai Ambe Dhaba ("Bhojan ki uttam vyavastha", which I shall loosely translate as "The best prepared grub this side of the Nile"). This establishment...
In his arms 29 Oct 2009 | 10:53 pm
Our first night on a recent roadtrip, we had planned to spend in Khandwa. On the map, it looked like a tough but doable drive from Bombay, on reasonable roads. But as afternoon turned to evening and t...
Why we didn't feel the rain 15 Oct 2009 | 07:29 pm
Had a wondrous stay in Assam's Kaziranga and Manas National Parks last March. The October issue of FlyLite, Jet Lite airlines' inflight magazine, has an essay I wrote on Manas. They called it "Last Ca...
Ego yo-yo 18 Sep 2009 | 12:16 am
So I make it onto the plane in the first busload of passengers -- hey, I'm no slouch when it comes to pushing and shoving. I have an aisle seat, so I find it and sit. The other two seats in my row are...
When fish fly 1 Sep 2009 | 06:53 pm
All the way from Killai to Chinnavaikal -- 20 minutes across an expanse of sea -- I'm turning an important question over in my mind: How do little silvery fish leap out of the water and across waves t...
Fishing in Legoland 19 Aug 2009 | 08:37 pm
Long leisurely drive through the backroads of Porvorim in Goa one evening. A rutted road is marked "House in Woods". What might this house be? Turns out it's a minor colony of homes, huge ground-and-o...
Flamingo pink, Bombay blue 14 Aug 2009 | 07:14 pm
It had been a long, hard grind at the office. I had not stirred from my computer, struggling to make it perform the tricks I knew it was capable of. Mentally exhausted, I leaned my head back in the tr...
