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2011- A MILESTONE YEAR – A PERSONAL REVIEW 29 Dec 2011 | 02:38 am
Ah, here we are at year end and a good time to look back on the year before moving ahead into the New Year. For me personally, it was one of those milestone years that don’t happen every year like thi...
Pictures from India & Nepal 20 Nov 2011 | 03:08 am
Here are a few choice snaps taken on my India and Nepal trip this year!
RETURN FROM INDIA- THREE MONTHS LATER 13 Nov 2011 | 05:53 am
I realized the other day that I have now been back home for a longer period of time than the actual amount of time I spent in India and Nepal from June to August. This kind of surprised me for I can...
LAST PARAGRAPH IN THE KASHMIR CHAPTER IN MY UPCOMING MEMOIR OF INDIA & NEPAL 17 Sep 2011 | 07:08 am
When I went back to the Srinagar airport and the tightest security checks I’ve ever been a part of, I had to linger outside the terminal before being allowed in for my gate to board the plane to Mumba...
RESTAURANT DIPLOMACY IN KATHMANDU 9 Aug 2011 | 06:07 pm
In my quest to shake my horrible sinus infection, I still had to eat. The one thing that hadn’t deminished was my apetitite and God forbid I’d miss a meal in restaurant rich Kathmandu. So, I did go o...
LED ZEPPELIN NIGHT IN KATHMANDU 4 Aug 2011 | 06:02 pm
To say things have changed in Kathmandu since my last visit is the understatement of my entire trip. Of course I expected things to have changed since 1986. What is the same anywhere? But such a compl...
THE BACK HOME PEOPLE 30 Jul 2011 | 07:32 pm
When I was invited to speak at Central University of Jharkhand (south India), I had no idea I was about to discover a very unusal group of people and was also able to find again my Kashmiri nirvana st...
RESTORED/UNRESTORED 21 Jul 2011 | 04:24 pm
The experience at the ashram, the bus ride, the monsoon, left me drained and depleted and soggy. I’d been traveling for five weeks. Certainly not a long time by long term travelers, but long enough in...
MEET THE BEATLES ASHRAM 15 Jul 2011 | 02:15 pm
It seems that wherever one travels around India, everywhere is holy. Yet some places are holier than others. Rishikesh is one. The town is situated on the holy Ganga, the Ganges River. Down river is ...
REDISCOVERY IN OLD MANALI 17 Jun 2011 | 07:30 pm
Arriving in Old Manali felt like coming home. When I traveled in 1985 and 1986 throughout India, Nepal, Tibet and China, I fell into a certain comfort of, well, not having to go to work every day and ...
