yamey
One of my aunts believed if something is cheap, it cannot be good. I have never shared her opinion, but as I will reveal below, occasionally what my late aunt believed, turns out to be correct. IN DECEMBER 2024, we made a trip to Rajasthan (India). Of the places we visited (Ajmer, Jodhpur,...
yamey
Here is another extract – a ‘taster’ – from my forthcoming book “ROAD TO HEAVEN – a passage through India”, which has reached the final editing stage. This sample relates to Maheshwar in Madhya Pradesh, a state in central India + + + + + + + Maheshwar is a 58-mile drive south...
Abhinav Bhatt
How much fun is it to be believe that ‘ah this time things would change! This time surely a revolution would stir up and bring drastic differences to our lives. This time we will get what we want!’. And only to realize that nothing really changes....
afterstan
Bell and I spent March first in Kerala (a state in southwest India), then flew to Taiwan. From Taipei in the northwest, we got started cycling on a counterclockwise circumambulation known as 環島 / Huándǎo ("journey around the island"). A page in a journal barely scratches the surface, especially...
afterstan
The first image is of the dog who was our companion when we camped at the beach in the village of Chithiraipettai, Tamil Nadu. I remembered that we had peanut butter, and I remembered that you can feed a dog peanut butter, so we did. The second image is our route through Tamil Nadu. I was just on...
afterstan
[Content warning: brief discussion of dead animals; 1 graphic photo of dead people] Most of this little monthly update is about Tamil Nadu. Here, enormous vinyl billboards like the one shown above were a daily sight along the road. They're the kind of thing that makes for a photo that is easy to...
Raj Shekhar
Interesting reflection from , John Palfrey after attending the AI summit in Delhi: In Delhi, the big sessions had thousands. And the man who ran the event told me that more than a million people, mostly from India, had passed through the gates of the massive convention center during the week....
afterstan
The above photo is of the Ganges River about 40 km along the road into the mountains before Rishikesh. I also took this photo because of the staircase, noticeable for its trans colours of light blue and pink. If there were also white, you'd have the 3 colours of the trans flag. I'm in the habit of...
Raj Shekhar
Photo by Lukas Kienzler on Unsplash I spent years losing time I'll never get back. In Bangalore, 117 hours a year stuck in traffic. In Delhi, 76 hours. That's nearly three full days annually spent breathing exhaust fumes, watching productivity evaporate, and feeling ambition slowly suffocate...
Raj Shekhar
"NewDelhi | 'Delhi is a city of secrets… everything's hidden, you need a good guide’ says US Ambassador" Came across this Indian Express article about the experiences of the American Ambassador to India and I was surprised on how closely it matches my own experiences and thoughts about Delhi....
Stijn Vogels
Onze wereld is een treinramp in slow motion. Diplomatieke topconferenties zijn gedegradeerd tot koffiekletsjes, multilateralisme hangt aan een zijden draadje, en crisismanagement is gereduceerd tot “hopelijk brandt het morgen niet erger dan vandaag.” En we hebben dit allemaal al eens eerder...
aharoni
It sometimes happens in people’s lives that someone tells them something that sounds true and obvious at the time. It turns out that it actually is objectively true, and it is also obvious, or at least sensible, to the person who hears it, but it’s not obvious to other people. But it was obvious...