Chapter photos from Crocodile Love, my new travel memoir
byThese photographs from our trip through Pakistan, India, Ghana, The Gambia serve as the chapter openers to CROCODILE LOVE: Travel tales from an Extended Honeymoon.
These photographs from our trip through Pakistan, India, Ghana, The Gambia serve as the chapter openers to CROCODILE LOVE: Travel tales from an Extended Honeymoon.
We have completed our report on the malnutrition of workers on six Indian tea gardens. This is the reason we came to West Bengal,…
I’d planned on being a plain old tourist in Darjeeling: Nothing to do but eat, drink, trek the Singalila, and visit the sites my…
October, I just learned, is Fair Trade Month, conveniently coinciding with my travels in Darjeeling and my discovery of a kinder, gentler side of…
In Paris, we stayed with a French-Moroccan couple who fed us mint tea (at midnight, after dinner) in traditional gold-inlaid glasses; sweet mint tea…
“A Machete, A Uterus, and Indian Tea,†by Charles Norman Todd, is an excellent breakdown that explains why the workers are starving.
The final phase of fieldwork for our tea worker nutrition survey has been frustratingly slow. Our work has been hampered by access problems in…
After yesterday’s post regarding starvation deaths, a creepy feeling gripped my shoulder, and I decided to ask this question out loud. Maybe some of…
These photos were taken by Debasish yesterday, during his visit to a garden which has experienced more starvation deaths in the last two months…
Some will find a hint of the exotic exuding from the place-names and mountain ranges in this latest cartographic creation. Others will see the…