A traveler finds a friend in a local tailor in India but struggles to connect with his assistant, a young girl from a nomadic tribe. When my tour group arrived…
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After passing a fitful night at an Indian train station, a traveler panics when she realizes the train to Agra is already on the move. I ran as fast as…
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A mistake leads to adventure when a traveler in India misses her train station, and strikes up spontaneous conversations with local commuters. The train’s window disappoints me intensely. It is…
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An Indian traveler attempts to come to terms with the complex legacy of British colonialism. Like every Indian, I too lament the many ills inflicted upon us by the British…
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A filmmaker travels to Mumbai and discovers the reality behind some of Bollywood’s most emotional movies. Once we landed in Mumbai and descended the plane, we were greeted by…
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Dangerous weather on India’s highest plateau forces a traveler to choose between safety and adventure. I gave up telling people my plans to go to Ladakh because the responses were…
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A writer attempts to describe the intensity of India while avoiding the ultimate cliché. When the journalist Christopher Hitchens went to Prague during the final years of communism, he made…
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After a gap of seventeen years, a Bengali writer returns to the storied city of Kolkata. With her husband and their adult daughter, they set out to discover the history…
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In an ancient city in southern India, a traveler observes a local religious festival and unexpectedly ends up in the middle of the action. In the ancient Sri Meenakshi Amman…
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