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 5, 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...
Sep 3, 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 26, 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 7, 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...
Aug 1, 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 23, 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 18, 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 14, 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...
Jul 2, 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...
Jun 19, 2019
