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Just Walking

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Some rooms you leave without quite closing the door. I've been away from this one a while — long enough that the dust has its own opinions — but I find I've missed the particular quiet of writing here, where a thought can be small and still worth saying.

So: back. Let's see what's accumulated.

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Bangalore from the back seat …

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at Hassan, Karnataka

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Off-roading …

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Bangalore from the back seat …

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Bangalore (Lockdown) Diary: To BBMP, a Word of Appreciation

I’ve been visualising coming down with Covid as being in extremis, but — with these four, at least — that’s not the case.

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Bangalore Diary: Will They Lockdown, Won't They Lockdown?

This points to unbridled free speech in the Chief Minister's cabinet—a healthy democratic exercise, maybe, but workers are fleeing the city

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IndiQuest: In Kolkata, Remembering Sister Alphonse’s History Class

Walking about Calcutta — Kolkata — I remembered Sister Alphonse’s history classes in school. I couldn’t help my mind doing its bit of wander

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Musing: Why Should I Travel? Why Should I Leave My Home at All?

There's a part of me asking, in defiance of Montaigne, "Should I travel at all? Should I leave my home, really?" I'm pitting the Maharshi ag

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On Not Feeling Pain for the Corona Victims

The daily figures of those fallen to corona look like scores in cricket — a game I understand but don't follow. I read the statistics withou

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Eleanor Rigby Hotel, Oct 2010; I'd gone there for Lennon's 70th.

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Malnad Diary: Locked Down Plantation, Elephants, Sandalwood Smugglers

It's a blue-topped bright-green world now during June, and more avians than ever in the twelve years I've known the place have flown into th

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Bangalore Diary: Lockdown: Mask to Taste, Damn the Distance

These actions are not going to erase the wrongs being done to people that deserve gratitude, not this pain. There's going to be a price to p