India
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way to go, finnish air
We Indians expect other countries to top this! _______________Photo by Saksham Gangwar on Unsplash Read more
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road to Simla
Perhaps ond day I’ll have the courage to travel this road from Shimla to the Himalayas. Read more
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memories of smells
There are some smells from childhood that stick with you, smells with which you quickly associate a memory of a person, place or thing. Here are some on mine from growing up in India. 1. fried fish = missing grandma 2. sticky, sweet honey = grandpa slaughtering a giant jack fruit with his machete 3. Read more
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India-Pakistan border
See the orange line? This is what the border between Pakistan and India, floodlit for surveillance purposes, looks like at night, from space. The bundles of light in the photo, which was taken from north to south, are the following cities: Delhi (top center), Srinagar (left), Lahore (center, just below the border line), and Islamabad Read more
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reminiscences of rajasthan
In 2004 our family visited a few of the old palaces of Rajasthan. Sarah Egger, a family friend accompanied us. It was one of our best vacations. I am really bad at photography and even worse at organizing pictures (or anything else). But here are some pictures, picked randomly. Read more
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the papad’s road to westernization
The Indian papad is a thin, super-crunchy lentil wafer that’s super delicious deep fried. For my family, it can’t be just any kind of papad; it must be the Madras papad. That’s the kind that has not been adulterated by today’s fad for food fusion. That’s the kind that hasn’t been assimilated with the Western Read more
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