Dharamsala Dreamin’
byFar north of the disastrous flooding in Mumbai, we are, nevetheless, soaking up our share of the monsoon deluge that has caused so much…
Far north of the disastrous flooding in Mumbai, we are, nevetheless, soaking up our share of the monsoon deluge that has caused so much…
Ah, the Golden Temple. A worthy site indeed. We were the only westerners among thousands of Sikhs, for whom a visit to this place,…
We skipped the flag lowering ceremony at the Wagha border — a much-hyped event in which Pakistani and Indian soldiers try to out-shout, out-march,…
I could have named this entry “Lahore Lovin’†or some other such city-centric title; the fact is, though, our four-day experience in Pakistan’s ancient…
Days and adventures roll into each other and I realize that I left a few dangling threads back in Islamabad. I’ll wrap up what…
Sitting and scrawling now, pen-on-paper, sweat-smudged and soggy my notebook as I crouch in a shady corner of the “tribal area,†a raised platform…
There was so much more we could have done in the north: the three-day Rakiposhi Base Camp trek; the hike from the village of…
Here it is, our home for a week-and-a-half in the village of Karimabad. The town’s water comes from the Ultar Glacier, pictured in the…
Nay, not the famed “Peshawar Original†hashish, smuggled to the Northern Areas from Peshawar’s main bazaar by many a young Japanese pot tourist. Why…