Dearest Marykutty,
I am in Goa and I think coming here was one of the best calls I made in life. The monsoons – and the unseasonal showers that followed –…
Discomfort, when it is honestly uncomfortable and makes no nauseous pretensions to the contrary, is a vastly humorous business. (‘Travels with a donkey’ by RL Stevenson)
Lighted lanes
Lallan* sat…
Belgian monk Francis Acharya decided to come to India after he met Gandhi in London. So impressed was he by the Mahatma’s espousal of the tenets of Hinduism that he…
If you are a fence-sitter when it comes to the supernatural – and its different ways of coming alive – Indonesia is a not-so-gentle nudge into adherence. The folklores and…
A man goes to a shrink to check if he has gotten over his ex.
Shrink: Do you get jealous when you think of her with another man?
Man: But…
Genetically we are road trippers
As children, our parents kept me and my sisters away from adultery and blaspheme by shifting to English. So we might all be sitting around and…
Alice Delices is a rare place. Besides freshly baked bread, here you find people actually talking to each other, looking at books and photographs, debating the identity of artists on…
Fort Aguada
At the O’Coqueiro in Alto Porvorim I sat exactly where the ‘Bikini Killer’ did over 30 years ago enjoying what would be his last meal as a free man…
Traveling together is a benchmark of compatibility. I know at least five dating couples who decided to move in together as they found they were still pining for each other…