Sahara… صَحَارَى How can one word still evoke so much? Even now, as time moves on at such quickening pace… Worlds begin to collide, continents drift. Again I am standing with feet between two lands. Yet for once I am not shaken, but stilled by this dissonance, this ambivalence… Life continues to move forward into […]
♫ – “Koan – Klaus Wiese” People have called me many things, given me many titles, accolades, nicknames and honours. In fact I have called myself many things. An artist, an Aesthete, a pilgrim, a wanderer, a muse. Truth is I am not any of those things – no Christopher Columbus, Byron, Dorian Gray; not […]
Behold! My global pilgrimage has thus far brought me to some truly extraordinary places, and for the first time brought me on safari in Masinagudi, Tamil Nadu, and the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve – in southern India. Here, cut off from all main roads, noise and chaos, the stampede of big towns and light pollution, you are surrounded by tropical […]
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Oh, the colour, the spirit, of India! Honestly, the sort of things I got away with in India would be impossible in Europe; and trust me, I’ve tried to crash weddings in England… and failed. Bangalore is a city of colours and flavours, and I was keen to taste as much as I could. I made […]
“It’s beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti It is true – really, at the very depth of the soul, we are all looking for something. – we are all fighting, throughout this weird and wonderful […]
On trekking Hidden Trails, Eating like a Nomad, and a Meeting with Saint George at the City’s Secret Chapel… Let me take you now to Athens, Capital of Greece, the very centre of an ancient empire so influential, so mysterious, so captivating, its name and traditions have spread to each corner of the Earth. Not only is […]
