What Do I Know?

Here's my first video post. This was 11 November in Amritsar, Punjab, India.

Lots of things entered my brain while we were in India, and got lost somewhere in the mass of new data. Farmer suicides was such an item. ...

I mentioned Alex and Neetu a while back. We met them at the Kochi airport getting on a flight to Bangalore. They were headed on for Delhi...

In Jaipur we talked with a young man with green/grey eyes. It was in one of the big bazaars inside the walls of the old city. Not far from...

Jaishree Misra's Ancient Promises tells the story of a Delhi girl who spends summers with grandparents in Kerala. Although she goes to ...

This is a follow up on the earlier post "Blow Horn" While driving back from Ellora Caves we saw AWAZDO on the back of a truck. ...

(Whoops, thought I'd published this, only saved it as a draft. So it comes after I've posted that we are home.) There were a few ti...

Since I posted last, we haven't had access to the internet. But we toured Goa with Savio and Ashwin (part of the package Nishant arran...

Salesmen in a sandal/shoe shop in Jaipur clowning for the camera. Raghu, the owner the of place we stayed in Pushkar. We talked about the p...

If we want to find some mottoes for India, Blow Horn would certainly be one. Not only is this motto plastered on the back of most trucks, e...

I'm in the 500 year old house of the travel guy Kenneth who picked us up atthe airport. It's huge, with very high ceilings. He...

Here's an early morning view from our cottage. We were glad to see the rain had stopped and we were seeing blue sky for the first time ...

Taking pictures of camels and camel carts from a moving car is not easy. When Pawan finally stopped and let me out to take a picture - it w...

We met Philip Jose on the plane from Mumbai to Kochi. He was taking his grandfather (88) back home after a celebration in Mumbai. Philip i...

Jantar Mantar means - according to one of the guides leading one of the German or British tours - calculating tools. This is the observator...

We started talking to two young men yesterday as we were getting on the ferry from Fort Cochin back to Ernakulum (same emphasis as binocular...

As we walked back from the bird sanctuary in Kummarakom, a young man asked - as does everyone else - "What country?" The short st...

I figured it was time to give you a sense of where all we are. We started in Delhi - upper left/middle of the map. 1 - trip to Amritsar an...

No internet for two days. We are in southern India now - Kerela State near Cochin, now Kochi - and it is a totally different world. Here i...