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Mumbai is the city that has launched a million dreams and helped realize them. She is the city for all those who dare to dream. A city for survivors. She throbs with adventure and generates the energy to run the country, then the world.

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The time-stained, red bus rattled down the same old road, negotiating the familiar curve. The banyan tree in the foreground partially hid the old hut that seemed to be standing there for eternity. The dull streetlight we whizzed past, reflected my ba..

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Buffeted by a strong sea breeze, we swayed precariously, swinging from seemingly flimsy cables, looking fearfully at the shimmering water far below and in awe-struck wonder at the glittering port lights in the distance.

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This was the beginning of a relationship with an island, its people, customs, language and culture that I experienced living in Mauritius for over ten years.

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Flashes of recognition hit my head, my arms, my eyes, my feet. Delhi absorbs all my energies and sometimes, fills up memory so that everything else is either before or after, lighter or heavier, cleaner or dirtier, more or less meaningful than Delhi.

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What does one carry back with them as one returns from long journeys to unfamiliar places? Souvenirs? Yes, but not the bits and pieces of representative keepsakes of buildings, cast in miniature size, or the glossy postcards which make you wonder if ..

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Serengeti will easily make it to anybody's list of top five natural wonders of the world. I don't think there are that many places in the world where you could shoo away hyenas and lions during dinner time!

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The title here invites one to imagine this article as a likely dissertation on some deeply religious experience. On the contrary.

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Originally this letter was posted to my children and other friends from Kathmandu. It is now addressed to all who aspire to visit Kailash-Mansarover.

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If Paleolithic man had a choice he would have chosen plastic. It is the natural way of man.

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