2016-03-19 18:53
Getting to Havelock Island is hard work. But perhaps there is something to say for the length of the journey. With every stage of the travel, you move a step away from the rapidity of life i… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
There's seawater rushing up my nose, suddenly harsh and corrosive. My brain starts sending me danger alerts, reminding me that I have a nose, not gills, and I cannot breathe underwater. With… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
On a small boat in the middle of the sea, tossing about on the waves, salt dries on lips and the sun chars skin. There are no comforts here, but there’s a reverence for the wind that f… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I came across an odd little study last week. Researchers at Sydney's University of New South Wales have found that therapy and counselling over the Internet is equally effective in combattin… Read More
2009-07-10 14:51
When you encounter a riverfront like the Shanghai Bund, it’s easy to see why the earliest cities were always built by the banks of a river — it becomes a lively hub of activity… Read More
2009-06-25 13:28
I haven't done one of these in a while. Andthen, suddenly, this thought automatically totalled up to 55.Last night, when we came home at midnight, the dogs downstairs started barking madly;… Read More
2009-06-24 09:16
June 23Everything seems clearer when it rains. Like a mist has lifted. Or some kindly soul, spotting a smudge on my spectacles, has wiped them clean. Colours seem sharper: the brown of the t… Read More
2009-05-01 13:15
I'm writing a travel blog on the HT website. Here.And this is part of the job, so you might actually get regular posts. Go check it out, I have a couple of pics up from Andaman and Nicobar Read More
2008-12-23 14:17
This is about Xian, China. The hall is huge. Very wide, and twice as long. The ceiling, so high that even though there are over two hundred people inside here at the moment it just swallows… Read More
2008-12-16 06:43
After eight hours of crouching by the side of the Taj, scouring its left profile, picking out every wart (there were few), examining every window, every corner, seeing the front was overwhel… Read More
2008-09-22 07:40
Chinese cities are a lot like Indian ones. Always bustling and full of people. When you’re in a good mood, they seem vibrant and full of infectious energy, but when you’re tired… Read More
2008-08-20 10:43
As a 12-year-old, Venice had made a great impression on me. The stone foundations loomed straight out of the water, music pervaded the canals, and there were arched bridges everywhere. I lik… Read More
2008-08-15 12:06
When we set out there were four. But one by one, my companions dropped behind, daunted by the seeming endlessness of our path, the steepness of the hurdles, the unflagging manner in which t… Read More
2008-08-15 11:58
My cat has schizophrenia.Here, right out the outset, let me clarify that he isn't really my cat. He belongs to my flatmate. But since she only wakes up at 11 am, and he likes to have his fir… Read More
2008-08-06 09:37
From the moment I get into a taxi and pull out of the Beijing Airport, all the signs are there. From the red flags fluttering on poles along the expressway, welcoming participating teams, to… Read More
2007-11-21 18:30
She's wearing a green sari with a gold border and sitting, one leg bent, on a thela. Around her, people have fallen asleep; except for the half-awake man huddled on a tarpaulin sheet on the… Read More
2007-11-17 09:08
A version of this was published in the Hindustan Times on Saturday, November 10.Urban Gypsy - KathmanduWhat struck me first was the number of children in the waiting crowd. While I was tryin… Read More
2007-11-06 13:15
A version of the following was published in the Hindustan Times about a month back. All these words and still, I was able to say nothing about the quiet exhilaration of that moment when the… Read More
2007-11-04 10:48
Priyak's cat. Mr Mahajan's hands. Photo by me Read More
2007-10-27 08:35
When Priyak first saw what is now his home, it was just four barely-there walls sheltering some weeds. Now, in addition to a house, there is a back garden that is an orchard in the making. T… Read More
2007-08-26 12:00
She stands in the balcony, looking out at a black sea defined by the white of waves silently rushing to the shore. The wind blows the hair back from her face, and a single resisting lock att… Read More
2007-08-22 05:59
Apparently, Delhi men can’t hold their drinks very well. [1] So the Delhi government’s solution is to stop women from working in bars as bartenders. They’re protecting them… Read More
2007-08-20 11:04
Recently, a friend of mine told me to mind what I say in my emails to him, even in jest. The injunction was not so much an admonishment for something I had said, as a warning against somethi… Read More
2007-08-02 08:09
This is a p.s. that is going to be a sticky post for a while. At some point, I realised that while everything I write makes perfect sense in my head, it may not to everyone else. So here&r&hell…Read More
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