‘It was my first outing with Airbnb.’ Any write-up that begins on a note like this you know where it is headed – yes, spiralling down.
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Photographs taken to bring tourists. And photographs taken by tourists themselves. Some minor details are always missing between these two. In my case it was a long line of big-boned…
Much has been written about muses and understandably so – they are salacious tales and scandalous to boot. The recorder always faithfully documents the gratitude the artistic and literary worlds…
Genetically we are road trippers
As children, our parents kept me and my sisters away from adultery and blaspheme by shifting to English. So we might all be sitting around and…
Alice Delices is a rare place. Besides freshly baked bread, here you find people actually talking to each other, looking at books and photographs, debating the identity of artists on…
Je ne sais quoi
For all their famous hatred, the French sometimes do come to the rescue of English, the language. The word above might sound like an endearment in Mandarin…
Take it easy, he said
Playing Pablo
It all started with a valium prescription following a workout accident: I couldn’t straighten up after I put the barbell down but had to…
A protester at the bridge
Clashing with the police, as anyone who has clashed with the police knows, is addictive. There must be some endorphin involved in the heightened sense of…
A sadhu in Kathmandu
The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, I have been told, is a sensory whirl: the colours and sights, smells and sounds waft around you, a gripping menagerie. In…