I wrote this poem after another devastating earthquake in India. It came to my mind again, after reading that many of the victims of this l...

I saw these candy cigarettes in the grocery store. I remember them as a child in Virginia, where we stopped at the green store, as we calle...

Another Hindi movie fight line: Tume aisi maut maarunga ke khud maut bhi apne daaman ke pichhe chupke bhaag jaaye I will kill you in suc...

I think I'm about done with Coonoor for now, but I wanted to throw in two pictures. We drove to Tiger Hill, which is supposed to have a ...

The Nilgiri Mountain Railway, familiarly known as the toy train, travels from Mettupalayam on the plains up to Ooty - a four-hour journey - ...

Along with some Ayurvedic medicine that we bought yesterday, a bottle of honey was thrown in for free. The Tamil word for honey is then . ...

Every bit of land that can be farmed, is -- mostly with tea. Only rocky outcroppings and the steepest slopes are forested. An elderly lady,...

All Saints Church, Coonoor I walked to the church, next door to the hotel. Buff-coloured stucco and a red-tiled roof. A monkey sat on the ...

(When I began writing about Coonoor, someone said, But I thought you were going to Ooty. So, to clarify, Ooty is the District Headquarters ...

Overheard on the plane: "You have to look at the details, and only then you understand what life is. The basic principal, like, goes ...

We stepped out of the plane into the blast of a hair dryer. At home, a concrete lined moat two feet wide ran the length of the street, just...

We're going up to the hills, from whence cometh the promise of cool air and rain. I wrote several posts about the area where I'm goi...

It's been 104F in the shade for the last several days, and now is the time chosen by the Corporation (the city government) to dig up our...

He's a very worldweary creature, isn't he? Endangered and resigned to it. Gazing out from the back of a water lorry.

The moonsoon arrived late in Kerala, began to spread out over the Subcontinent, and then stalled. Sweltering Chennai waits stoically for th...

The art of Gail Rieke . "Gail Rieke orchestrates some of the most sensitive collage works being done today. Their uniqueness has to do ...

Some Parsi friends came home for dinner last night, bearing a big pot of tomato rice. I love this dish - with some yoghurt on the side it c...

There is a real estate boom going on in Chennai. People dream of selling their houses for large amounts to IT companies. And builders are ...

My poetry friend Helena Nelson has started a new venture to publish poetry chapbooks; and a magazine, Sphinx : A Magazine for Poetry People...