Tagged With: Goa
Building schools with plastic bottles
Walls made of plastic bottles instead of bricks. Given how mercilessly my nephews harass me (rightfully, regretfully) for my prematurely failing memory, I nonetheless remember clearly the first time I saw this remarkably simple-yet-innovative idea in action. Back in 2008, I was visiting the rainforest hippie enclave of San Marcos, accessible only by boat and … Continue reading
Nobody dies in paradise
I met Kirill at the German Bakery in Arambol, the hippy-chic beach community in Goa. Mind you, there are dozens of German bakeries (all, invariably, named ‘German Bakery”) strewn across ex-pat neighborhood across India and Nepal, as if some entrepreneurial genius had created a German-style ‘Let’s bring “real” food to the East” Marshall Plan to … Continue reading
Goa flashbacks
My latest travel article, Escape to Green Goa, was just published and, and it’s a bit shocking that it was already a full year ago that I first stepped foot on her sandy shores. It was in Goa that I taught myself to ride a motorcycle, despite the hoards of drunken Russians hell-bent on proving … Continue reading
Articles & Reviews
GreenTravelerGuides.com and Reuters Business Traveler Features: OMunity Bali: not a private villa, a private green village! (March 20, 2013) GTG / Reuters Bali: green inspiration at Desa Atas Awan boutique resort (February 21, 2013) GTG / Reuters Beirut, Lebanon: eating organic & slow (December 12, 2012) GTG / Reuters Ehden, Lebanon’s northern paradise (November 13, 2012) GTG / Reuters Dubai: green in the … Continue reading
The Universe in a Single Atom
Goa is like molasses … people come for a couple of weeks, and end up staying for months. Apparently, it’s even a well-known phenomena. I guess I missed that memo. Yesterday, I attended Tedx Goa – I was particularly interested in the talk by “Coconut Ali” – Wildlife Biologist Rauf Ali who, after the 2004 … 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
Lord of the Speedos & the Captains of Industry
New Year’s Eve in Goa was full of surprises. Plans changed at the last minute, and we ended up having dinner with Sandhya’s friend and their group of 25 or so at La Plage, a swank beach-side restaurant on Morjim beach in northern Goa. Having lived for the past 9 months or so as a … Continue reading
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