Picto Diary

Drums did OK at this, apart from taking a curve at 90 kph and taking out a couple of elephants on the track.

This is a fabulous metaphor for India, where state of the art technology combines with the arcane to secure tradition's place in the face of massive technological, economic and social progress.

"Muslims and Hindus live peacefully together all over India," he said. "Partition in 1948 was a big mistake," said Mr. Abdullah. "Think how powerful India would be today were she not divided in 1948."

Boys were dressed as school boys should be: Monogrammed jackets and school ties.

As I toured the Lucknow Residency today I was able to correlate the layout with the events described in the novel.

OK. We admit it. One reason to return to India so often is the hotels.

The arc of history is bending tribal.

Dashashwahmed Ghat, in Varanasi, has over five million Facebook location check hits.

...this city is mentioned by the Buddha as one of the four places of pilgrimage to which his devout followers should visit.

Along the route from Kohima to Dimapur.

Yesterday, I walked into the stadium between two columns of Naga tribes people, male and female, colorfully dressed in their tribal duds. The tribes people, forming two lines, facing one another, with me and other spectators walking between them, were chanting. MMMMM (two, three, four), MMMMMM (two, three, four), MMMMM (two, three, four)... They moved back and forth as they chanted. The effect was mesmerizing. I teared up, overwhelmed by this unique travel experience.

In 2007, Guinness World Records certified that the ghost pepper was the world's hottest chili pepper, 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce.