- Sep 5, 2019
Where To Go, What To Do: North
This is the follow-up post to Where To Go, What To Do: South, which showcases my travels in South India and gives some itinerary planning...
- Sep 3, 2019
Where To Go, What To Do: South
India is huge. And not only is it physically large, but each region is vastly different culturally, many with their own distinctive...
- Aug 26, 2019
On Endings and Beginnings
Me with some new friends outside the Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai, Tamil Nadu I picked up a dirty secondhand copy of the novel Life...
- Aug 6, 2019
Monuments of Exile
Just before I came to India, I met someone who said that his family is Tibetan, but he grew up in India. I remember that it didn't really...
- Aug 1, 2019
Revisiting Munnar
Tamil Nadu tired me out. The sights were interesting, although perhaps not as grande as elsewhere in India. The suffering humidity made...
- Jul 23, 2019
The Tamil Nadu Temple Trail
I came Tamil Nadu on an overnight sleeper bus to Chennai. It was the last of my South Indian states but it felt different. The language...
- Jul 18, 2019
Je Ne C'est Kya?
Pondicherry was quite strange. A French colony until 1962, it remains an eclectic mix of South Indian and French culture, sprinkled with...
- Jul 14, 2019
Living Histories
Hampi was lovely. Tourist season hadn’t yet begun and the tiny town was practically empty. In the mornings I would go to the little dhaba...
- Jul 2, 2019
On Fisherfolk and Faraways
I loved Goa immediately. A thick silence hung in the air and the fields were ripe and saturated. The grey of the monsoon cast a heavy...
- Jun 19, 2019
Of Monkeys and Maharajas
As I come to my last blog post about my amazing trip to Rajasthan, I think back to the people I met along the way; I think about the...
