Tagged With: Encounters
A Taste of Tibet – Environment in Exile
Sandwiched between the Reiki Level I training by the sweet if somewhat too-leftover-Hippie-stereotype German ex-pat while overlooking the once-crystal-clear-but-now-muddied-by-upstream reservoir construction along the Ganges in yoga-capital-of-the-world Rishikesh, and paragliding at 10,000 through the snowy Himalayan foothills near Manali, I dropped in for a masala tea with the Deputy Director, Department of Environment, Tibetan Government in Exile. Slide after Power … Continue reading
India: Part I
Follows is a stream of consciousness, unedited effort to capture events while fresh in mind. Intention is to develop a multi-perspective piece on a situation that deteriorated quickly, and could have easily turned into an ugly beating of two local film producers. But like destinations over this past year, intentions are, with increasing rapidity and … Continue reading
An amusing species
Yesterday, on my 44th birthday (or, as my father would have said, on the first day of my 45th year of life), I paused to reflect on some of the characters in this made-for-TV-afternoon-special that I’ve met in the past days, weeks and months. There was the cast of the acid-inspired-Burning-Man-by-the-Sea-carnival in which the leading … Continue reading
The Sniper – Part II
Yesterday, while catching a few rays in between yoga and attending an organic kitchen gardening workshop in the city of Panjem — where I met the head of India’s largest organic farming association (who proceeded, for the second time – the first by phone a few days earlier – to blow me off entirely) and … Continue reading
Encounters: Insane Special Forces Sniper
Some months ago, a friend suggested that the journey isn’t about the undiscovered places, but about the undiscovered people. Who could have predicted a chance encounter with ‘Bamboo’? One afternoon earlier this week, it was yet another picture-perfect day, warm but not scorching, clear skies, with my spot on a relatively-isolated stretch of the beach … Continue reading
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