Hotel Oceanic, on Santhome High Road. I've never been closer than this - it stopped being a hotel long ago, though I've been told t...

From Spice , an offshoot of India Today : The text reads: The Sajjadah 1426 ... is for the devout who pray five times a day facing Mecca. W...

In November my sister came to visit for the first time. She appeared to enjoy everything. She said, "It's so exciting -- my first...

"Enjoy the experience safely and comfortably in our special thermal clothing. See! Feel! Enjoy!"

My maid Lakshmi slipped and fell about three weeks ago, and got a small gash on her forehead. We treated it with antiseptic and so on, and ...

This week a man in Gummidipundi filed a case in the High Court, claiming that the Tamil Nadu Cricket Board should not be allowed to schedule...

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...