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Tag Archives: travel
Radical friendship and the end of the guru
Again I catch a glimpse of a recalibration of the politics of the knower, the known and the as yet unknower/unknown. I see Liberation Camaraderies replacing Mystical Theocracies. Continue reading
Posted in epoche, Rose Apple Island
Tagged adventure, Bodhgaya, Buddhism, disciple, enlightenment, friendship, Ganges, guru, India, Kumare, Laxman Jhula, liberation, Mahabodhi, Rishikesh, saddhu, solo female traveler, solo traveler, spirituality, Tibetan Buddhism, travel, travel writing, Upaddha Sutta, Vikram Gandhi
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Hitchhiker’s guide to duality
Surely, the man wasn’t going to tear Prem’s arm out of his socket while he was driving! Even cannibals must have some code of honour, even if they are short on table manners. Continue reading
Posted in epoche, Moving on...., Rose Apple Island
Tagged adventure, aghori, Buddha, bull elephants, cannibalism, crush car, dangerous, Dehradun, elephant, forest, India, monsoon, Rajaji National Park, Rishikesh, Rishikesh-Dehradun highway, River Ganges, saddhu, Sal tree, solo female traveler, spirituality, taxi, travel, travel writing, tuskers, Uttarakhand
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The backstrap
One professor of literature told me that after her mother had died of stomach cancer, she had not been able to cook for three months because the system wouldn’t let her refill her kitchen gas cylinder. She had visited the concerned office six times to appeal, but the clerks kept telling her that her mother needed to come to make the payment. Continue reading
Posted in epoche, Rose Apple Island
Tagged bureaucracy, contract, diplomacy, Gymkhana Club, India, Portugal, travel, Treaty of Windsor
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Your tranquility is here
It seemed a perfectly reasonable mission—to find a bottle of champagne in Paris. How hard could it be? But circumstance conspired to make it more of a challenge than I could have imagined. For one thing, it was a last … Continue reading
Posted in epoche
Tagged champagne, France, French, heart, ice jacket, kiss, love, mono no aware, Montparnasse, Paris, relationships, romance, single, tranquility, travel, Veuve Clicquot
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The Ganga Chronicles – Stone Cold Tigers
Finally finished this rather long short story that I had originally posted in parts. Here all four parts in one. The whole story pizza. Enjoy. Vijay Chaudary was worried about his carbuncle. Three pedicures in the past week alone, and there it … Continue reading
Posted in epoche, Kashi, Rose Apple Island
Tagged Asia, bacteriophage, boatman, burning ghats, Ganges, Georgia, India, kashi, River Ganges, short story, travel, Varanasi
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The greatest show on earth
Amelia Earhart once said, ‘You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.’ Well, I think it must also be true that you haven’t seen a lunar eclipse until you’ve seen it in Varanasi. Here, where … Continue reading
Posted in epoche
Tagged astrologer, astrology, Ganges, god, Hanuman, India, kashi, lunar eclipse, Shiva, travel, Varanasi
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When I first met Rakesh he was the youngest boatman working on the Ganges. Ten years old, shy and very quiet. He’s now fifteen, and very much his own man. He dropped out of school because “the teacher was bad” … Continue reading
Left hand urve
Don’t worry about getting lost once in a while. It’s an occupational hazard of all explorers…
A new adventure
Nothing quickens the spirits quite like a new adventure
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