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In one of my earlier posts, I had listed down some of my initial thoughts and observations about the exciting, colourful and bustling Mexi..

I’d seen those masks in the airport shops when I first entered Mexico. Those colourful masks, which I assumed were fancy gift ideas for ki..

After our last year’s trip to Varanasi and Bodhgaya, my friend ‘Smiling Buddha’, Deepak and I were back on the road again; this time to th..

November 2018, Mangalore: I was to travel to Mexico City for work, and truth be told, I wasn’t feeling exactly comfortable about the propo..

I met them – Kathakali artist Sukumaran and his companion – in (what I thought) was the unlikeliest of places – in one of the corridors of..

We left peaceful Bodh Gaya to head to ano..

I grabbed a cup of hot bella coffee from the crowded Hatti Kaapi outlet outside the Bangalore airport terminal, and found a comfortable se..

Eshwar Sundaresan is an ex-Infoscion and now a published author, counselor and trainer. Eshwar and I go back a long way–we’ve been friends..

Have you heard this tale of a Sufi saint who, way back in time, stole some coffee beans from Arab traders and planted them on a sloping hi..

Sorry, my bad. But, it’s true.

So after eight long years..

You would’ve heard of people who make millions from their blog, and have probably wondered who these people are. Well, allow me to introdu..