Im home!! Back in the United States. But I still have so many photos and stories to share from India. Heres one from last February...Majuli is the largest river island in the world. How could I resis...
Apologies if this offends anyone (e.g., my future children), but I think Indian kids—were talking ages 2 to 10—are cuter than American kids. (For that matter, Asian babies, with their chubby faces, w...
Well, not hunting. But it sure felt like a throwback to Indias colonial days, riding atop an elephant through eight-foot grasses at dawn in pursuit of a rhino. All I was missing was a big white musta...
In north India, furry spitting two-humped camels brought from the Silk Road live in a high-altitude desert at 10,000 feet. They strut across the sand as clouds dip and swirl above them, the Hamalayas...
The Taj Mahal lives up to all the hype. At sunrise, it surpasses it. I visited the Taj on a few occasions. It got better each time. (My landlord here agrees that it improves with age. I think its the...
Im home in the U.S. for two weeks. Its wonderful, if only because I dont worry about shower water getting in my mouth and giving me stomach problems. But Im missing my favorite things about India—che...
Indian reactions to the killing of Osama bin Laden were unanimous, "We knew he was in Pakistan." It wasnt just people on the street: Indias journalists echoed the sentiment for weeks. Headlin...
Ive always been a bit afraid of horses. I mean, they have huge teeth and could kick you. (My friends great-grandmother has one eyebrow permanently higher than the other because a Nazi horse "hind...
In north Indias Markha Valley, two friends and I pushed to the summit of probably the highest mountain I ever want to climb. On the final day, one friend developed such bad altitude sickness that we ...
On the evening of bin Ladens assassination, two friends and I wandered pretty darn close to Pakistan in northern Indias Ladakh. The U.S. Embassy in Delhi had sent an email to all ex-pats, urging them...
When I was seven years-old, I watched Sesame Street and drew in a coloring book. I also talked to my stuffed animals. (Shelly the technicolor dinosaur puppet was a great conversation partne...
Elephants seem incredibly friendly, like mammoth furless Golden Retrievers with trunks. (And, yes, I realize those are probably the last words of people who get trampled by elephants.) To be honest, ...
Since the nightmare in sleeper class, train travel in India has been generally pleasant. Phew. On an overnight train along India’s southwest coast, I gripped a handle bar near an open door and stuck ...
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