Mulling over Manali
Tonight is our last in Manali, a town in the Kullu Valley in the northwestern province of Himachal Pradesh. In the end we have covered the entire route we would have, minus actually making it to Leh....
View ArticleThe long road home…
...began in Manali, drove for 16 hours to Delhi, flew 7 hours to Helsinki, waited in the Helsinki airport for 8 hrs, flew 8 hrs to New York, and took a 9 hour bus ride back to Montreal. We're now back...
View ArticleNavigating India’s media
In an earlier post, I mentioned that half of all televisions in India tuned into the national parliamentary cable station when it seemed that the government was about to lose a confidence vote,...
View ArticleCalm settling in Jammu & Kashmir?
A Kashmiri man injured by police at a protest in Srinagar, in Kashmir. Photo by Kazu Ahmed (via Flickr) Getting to Leh is finally getting a little easier again. As we were leaving it seemed like the...
View ArticleStargazing, 18th century style
One of my favourite stops on our trip was the Jantar Mantar in Jaipur, Rajasthan. One of five located across North-Western India, the Jantar Mantars were constructed by Maharaja Jai Singh II, the...
View ArticleBooks to read in India (or anywhere else), part I
Ask anyone who knows me, and they'll tell you I don't really read books. I'm a news junkie, always with a magazine or newspaper on hand, and while I'll usually have a book on the go, it's usually the...
View ArticleBooks to read in India (or anywhere else) part II
Journalist Edward Luce is tough to pin down. A writer for the venerable bastion of business news, the Financial Times, the economy is never far from the tip of his pen. But it is often couched among...
View ArticleLeaving home to find his roots
This is a fairly long post, but one I have been working on for a while. It's based on a two hour discussion Roddy and I had with Lozeng (his name is changed to protect his and his family's identity in...
View ArticleRetrospecting
Three weeks in from the trip, and there is still a lot on my mind. Being away for just a month meant that the culture shock of returning to Montreal hasn't been as intense as many of the other people...
View ArticleThe last one
This post has been a long time coming. I'm not quite sure why it has been so hard to get out. Maybe it's been that I've been talking to so many people about the trip that when I've been sitting down...
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