Dana point — Time has thrust me into the depths of what writers call “networking.” It’s been a short seven-day journey of making new acquaintances, hobnobbing with fellow writers, and learning new tricks o’ the ...
Ampelokipoi — I feel sorry for dilapidated houses when they are forced to expose their insides like that — It’s like they are forced to expose their secrets, their private histories. Who knows what people stared ...
London — One day last week, when on leave and having some time to explore my old stomping ground- the City of London - I was delighted to come across this beautiful area of meadow, containing cornflowers, pop...
Bhopal — I still remember Habib Tanvir inviting me on my request for an interview in Bhopal during the month of March 2003. I reached at the right time and while he was busy giving final touches to a rehearsea...
Glendale — My dad ran out to the garden tonight to bring these to my mom. He still got it. It’s easy to forget how old our parents are getting. Going to start spending more time with them so we can get to know...
Ahmedabad — We have optimum utilization of everything. This includes car sharing, revenue sharing; profit and loss sharing but we have no mechanism for food sharing. Everyday millions of tonnes of food are comple...
Saint-denis — J’ai pris ce pissenlit en photo car il y avait tellement de béton autour, ça le rendait si fragile, si non-fonctionnel. Presque un acte de rébellion. Étoile noire parce qu’en face de la cité Besson et...
Duluth — I don’t usually do selfies but these Mayflies were so cute. (Yes, so named even though it’s July). Many, many hitched a ride as I wandered about in the pine barrens next to Lake Superior scouting the ...
Edmonton — I began walking at 7:20 am to avoid the projected heat of the day. I was walking a paved multi-use trail - a 10 km jaunt from Cameron Heights to 106 street. After 1.5km or so, the trail dipped into th...
Santa fe — Santa Fe has three fine arthouse cinemas: “The Screen” on the campus of the Santa Fe University of Art and Design; “Cinematheque” at the Center for Contemporary Arts; and now the newly reopened and r...
Boise — Sometimes the cast of characters is different but the show is the same. I like riding the bus. I don’t have to focus on driving and I can read or work on writing. The route can be long sometimes but ...
Norwich — I was walking down the uneven ground with a friend and we took a rest on a bench that faces the lake. The serene moment and the quaint wooden pier captivated me. I reached out for my phone and snapped...
Pasadena — I took this picture of my best friend, Ashley, this past weekend. She randomly decided to sit here since it was the only shady place from the hot, Sunday afternoon heat. I thought it was pretty hila...
Palm springs — Saturday afternoon, by the pool. Grace has her water spritzer and is sipping on a boozy slushie, Betsy’s stitching. We’re all sitting in silence, watching people partying by the pool. It’s Day Two of...
Duluth — I woke this morning to steely grey sky and water. The weather forecaster promised temperatures only in the 50 and 60 range with recurring showers. That forecaster nailed it. Each time I got ready for ...
Kennett square — Photo Credit: Denver Moskel I’ve never seen myself painting before. while I was painting the decrepit red barn a young man approached me to introduce himself. he said he had been watching me from acr...
Havant — I’ll be honest from the outset here, it’s not my 1st choice of how to make a living - working away from home that is - but you have to do what you have to do. You find ways to make it as comfortable ...
Othis — Journal : écrit quotidien. Intime : qui ne regarde que soi. Le pouvoir de dire et publier ce que l’on veut. Il y a des chose au dessus que je garderai pour moi. 2min de gainage. Très dur. T. dit que j...
Pollock pines — Fourth of July weekend, I spent in Sacramento with my best friend. He moved there at the beginning of the year to start school at Sac State, and has spent many a conversation trying to talk me into mo...
Oshikoto — The actual title of this photo is, “Zebra Crossing”. It was taken during a recent trip to Namibia and was shot in Etosha National park. In my mind, I had really wanted to get a high-key shot of a zebr...
London — Yes, I know I’ve already written a moment about this bench, but having subsequently found this hidden treasure I felt it warranted a moment all of its own! Hidden away on one end of the bench is this...
San francisco — Every few months or so, I go with my dad to South San Francisco and visit the grave of my grandfather. He died long before I was born, in a car accident, so all I know of him now is stories my dad tel...
Ahmedabad — India’s education system is getting screwed day after day. In fact education in India is a problem than a solution. When I was in the school, there was little information on the options before us. Tal...
Ahmedabad — What is faith? Can it be blind? How far can you go to defend your faith? A recent controversy over Shirdi Sai Baba is interesting. Suddently a revered Hindu priest announced Sai Baba, a very popular a...
Morgan hill — Some scrambled thoughts after seeing my friend graduate: The final moments of high school hold so much joy. But it’s intermingled with sadness.. goodbyes trying to preserve themselves in wistful hop...
Fountain valley — It was Euro Cup 1996, and all I knew was that it was a soccer tournament. At 2am, I had stayed up to watch the German team win the championship. I have been a fan ever since. Today, 18 years later, I...
Duluth — I woke with a hint of The Blues circling my thoughts and heart this morning. A couple days ago one brother informed me of the death of a distant relative - the bother-in-law of my mother’s sister. “...
Athens — Day 1 of the #100happydays was an easy one happiness-wise because it involved some serious outdoors Lindy hopping (swing dancing for those not familiar with the term). Lindy Hop is probably the happie...
Athens — Day 3 of the #100happydays challenge and I went for lunch with two girlfriends. The one wanted to have a salad but she was really jealous of the delicious looking potatoes the girl in the next table w...
Caylloma province — 13 hours on the road from Cusco to the isolated Colca Valley today. As we descended down to the valley from 4910M - higher than the highest peak in Europe - the setting sun silhouetted the smoking pea...
Othis — Dimanche 13 juillet 2014. Rêvé que j’étais chez mon médecin et qu’il me massait le dos puis une côte à droite et je me retiens de hurler tellement ça fait mal. Mais il y va avec le coude puis avec le ...
Palo alto — There’s a saying that observations often tell you more about the observer than the observed. In my 19 years of life, I’ve rarely met people as observing — and so captivated by observing — as Eunice...
Duluth — I rode bicycle for my exercise today. The 18 mile ride, 9 out and back, follows the shore of Lake Superior for much of its length. I love this delightful ride. I passed many people on the trail. So...
Duluth — Iris pseudacorus My field guide to Wildflowers: Northeaster/North-central North America says “The only yellow iris likely to be found growing wild. A European escape from gardens; now established wid...
Duluth — Each year from mid June to August, just as young goslings hatch, adult Canada Geese molt and loose the ability to fly. The adults cannot fly; the goslings are too young to fly. Imagine the city out o...
Paris — Samedi 12 juillet 2014 Instagram. Compte d’un culturiste : Corps musclés, corps parfaits, desir de star system alors qu’il n’est qu’employé d’un café portant son prénom. Mentalités de petites filles ...
London — This book bench, the next in my series on the Bloomsbury Book Benches, is located just next to Senate House, in Malet Street, the headquarters of the University of London. If you know this book, you’...
Edmonton — Whitemud Ravine in July. The long summer evening light seems made for this place. It’s a flat, accessible trail that quickly removes the city from concern. Traffic gives way to birdsong, human voices ...
Tokyo — Born without rhythm, it wasn’t really any surprise it took me so long to (misguidedly) decide I wanted to start dance. Like your first foreign language, it’s ill-advised to start late in life: it’s n...
Seattle — If you’ve considered seeing Wish I Was Here, put it on the list for Netflix. It deserves your box office money on a principled standpoint (saying “I support independently funded film-making rather tha...
Ahmedabad — Journalists are like sitting ducks. Not because they are prone to attacks and have no defense but this is connoted in a different way. They sit like ducks in their offices and look for gossips of film...
Ahmednagar — Mughals are the pioneers of architecture in India but they don’t have a roof over their head now. What a pity for the former emperors of India? As I went through a news item some months back how the ...
Bodega bay — I am a solitary creature. I like my space, I don’t like people invading that space, but I don’t mind sharing that space when I become close with someone. But when something happens to throw me into an...
Guatemala city — Mi muerte instantánea provocada por ti sería; el apaciguar un anhelo a través de un hecho que culmina en la unión de cuatro comisuras disfrazadas de sonrisas. El reemplazar el ruido de la plaza por el...
Darmstadt — Let’s imagine you’d have a file you want to share with a friend. A PDF document, an eBook, a picture, whatever. What would you do? Chances are high that you would attach this file to an e-mail or an i...
Carballo — The more I work the more I think. The more I find myself realising reasons and systems within work, and the more I want to write - to make sense of all these mini AHA moments ( as they would say in Sr...
Wailuku — One is grateful. Particularly for reminders like these. This was my early evening sunshine, blue and green where yours was yellow. I, too, heard the sighing of the wind in the tall elephant grass for...
Katrineholm — One should be grateful. Grateful for the late evening sunshine, yellow and lovingly caressing, for the sough in the trees, that soft, dancing sound of shivering aspen leaves, for voices and laughter ...
Marble canyon — This photo is by-product of my poor trip planning. The original plan was to drive from Grand Canyon to Utah along route US89 visiting some iconic landmarks as Horse Shoe Bend and later to make few sto...
London — The artist Freyja Dean is the creator of the next in my series on the Bloomsbury Book Benches. Representing the James Bond stories written by Ian Fleming, it has a playing card theme to it, with bold...
Alibag — Few years ago I happened to read a piece by Calev Ben-David in Bloomberg News about Jews. There was nothing revealing though but I gave a thought of Jews being compared to Gujaratis or Marwaris. All ...
Montrouge — Quand j’ai quitté le studio, j’ai pris un de ces cartons qui viennent se mettre au dessus de ces cartons qui contiennent des ramettes de papier, je l’ai posé sur la poubelle dans le hall de l’immeuble...
Oslo — These have been my first few days travelling alone. I don’t really quite know what I was expecting. There was a significant amount of internal stress at home that I was hoping to escape from by coming...
Cholargos — I don’t consider myself a very happy person [on a scale of 1 to 10 I would give me a 5, if I were to be honest] without this meaning that I am in fact an unhappy person. My unhappiness, if I were to c...
Averøy — Today (9 June), I head out in T-shirt and shorts - what I woke up in. The temperature is around 12 degrees celsius. We have a 7 hour drive from Bergen to Geiranger and I wanted to be comfortable in th...
Ahmedabad — Passengers who travel frequently are dreaded to put luggage as check ins. Most business related passengers prefer to keep it as cabin luggage. Two main factors, delay in arrival of luggage and missing...
Ikeda — The more you know, the less you need.1 Ok okay, I admit it — I took you for granted — I’m sorry. I could turn the tap or flip the switch and there you were. Yes, I treated you foolishly, but I’ve...
Saint-denis — Jeudi 10 juillet 2014 Rêvé que le Printemps Haussman, les Galeries Lafayette étaient un hôtel et qu’avant de monter dans ma chambre j’allais prendre une glace Hagen-Daaz tomate framboise. Toujours si...
Cholargos — This poplar tree and I have grown up together and even though it’s debatable whether I have always made the life of those around me beautiful, I can testify that this poplar tree has always made the l...
Wellington — This is a slightly-edited copy-and-paste of one of many story e-mails I’m writing about my everyday adventures to a friend, Cheryl, as she spends a year teaching English in China. It’s both my way ...
Ahmedabad — For the last 37 years, I have been using this pen. This was gifted to me by my uncle who otherwise had no business with this pen since his education ceased before matriculation. He must have thought t...
Ahmedabad — Today, as journalists are themselves in the headlines, I recollect this week’s meeting with a former journalist who is in dire straits, needs urgent care and compare with the existing breed who are no...
Ahmedabad — One fine morning the Security Supervisor brought a Kabadiwala to my office as per my request to find one. The Kabadiwala introduced himself as a Marwadi and he was briefed by my intermediary on the pu...
Ahmedabad — Importance of personalities – living or dead - can be defined from the manner in which political parties milk their popularity. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, a simpleton but a task master who was the firs...
Ratanpur — How is this term Bootlegging referred to selling liquor illegally? Whether it is a noun or verb, the meaning remains the same. Non-English speakers are still to find how boot and leg got combined to p...
Edmonton — I entered Patricia Ravine on Westridge Road, near its northern boundary. It’s accessible from both north and south via a granular trail, a short bridge, and two short-length staircases. A few steps s...
London — After Christmas I mentioned that I had been given a model of Shakespeare Tower, one of the high-rise blocks on the Barbican Estate. I grew up on this estate, and this week I’ve had an opportunity to ...
Santa fe — Note: additional photos will be added. Of course, weaving traditions occur in many if not most traditional cultures of the world, but in Santa Fe, weaving is celebrated for at least three distinct cu...
Keighley — I keep trying to write other things about this picture… About the Cycling Republic of Yorkshire. About how shortly after I took this picture and Le Tour had ridden through we, on bike or on foot, ...
Santa fe — The scrubby chaparral landscape that surrounds Santa Fe, with snowy mountains in the near distance, is a dominant feature of life in this little city in the desert. The elevation of 7200 feet means t...
New york — “Table for one, please.” There are hungry urban adventurers who prefer dining alone. The perks include shorter wait times for getting seated, fewer distractions for practicing mindfulness with every b...
Los angeles — I can attest to the realness of postprandial somnolence a.k.a. food coma. Post-recreational bike ride on a warm July 4th afternoon I craved a chili cheeseburger from the legendary Tommy’s. I hadn’t ea...
Roissy-en-france — Mercredi 09 juillet 2014 Pourquoi Nisan Gogo ? Quand je suis au Japon, j’aime bien, le soir, regarder la télévision. Pour l’amour du son que fait cette langue, pour la folie débridée de certains cont...
Ahmedabad — In most cases education is referred to the academic certificates individuals collect. But what is missing here is knowledge. Education and knowledge have no direct connection in most part of the world...
Enadimangalam — Growing economies across the world have no place for Left politics is what India has proved in the last two decades. As aspirations multiply, inequality grows. Where ever there is inequality, rebellio...
Cape town — I’m one of those people for who the glass is half empty. It’s not something I like to admit. But there it is. It is the one thing about myself that I’d like to change. I like certainty about the futu...
Ahmedabad — Why do we work? Why do we earn money? Well, the answer is simple. You work to eke out a living and the answer to the second question is also the same. Depending on the income levels, standards may var...
London — OK, so here’s number 4 in the Bloomsbury Book Benches series. I’ve called it Peter Pan (1), as there are actually two book benches representing this famous character created by J.M Barrie, although t...
Aguas calientes — Just finished 3D/2N Lares Trail Trek, the non-tourist alternative to the famous Inca Trail Trek. Like the Lord of the Rings with llamas, the scenery was breathtaking at literally every moment. We camp...
Bagneux — Mardi 08 juillet 2014. Toute la nuit j’ai expliqué, me suis battu et ai été poursuivi par la terre entière menée par ma mère. Épuisant. Plus tard sur twitter : Je n’ai pas grand chose à faire au bure...
Sognolles-en-montois — Hard to believe, this is only an hour drive from Paris. The rain is part of the experience, I guess…
Ahmedabad — I don’t know why we should ape ‘Bullet Train’ when it doesn’t go beyond 200 kms. Bullets travel at more than 1000 miles per hour. But we have this typical obsession with naming stuff that doesn’t dese...
New delhi — There should be a system in place. Although systems aren’t pretty in general, I suppose a crumbly, haphazard, dreamy structure is highly desirable. The kind that doesn’t let its dreamers fade into obl...
Tokyo — When you travel alone, strangers talk to you and share something intimate about their lives. But they are not talking to you. They are trying to talk to their dead mothers, estranged fathers, disloyal...
Seattle — If you’ve considered seeing 22 Jump Street, get ready for a smart stupid comedy. The reality is that the writers behind 22 Jump Street (notably Michael Bacall, who also wrote 21 Jump Street) decided ...
Dammartin-en-goële — Lundi 07 juillet 2014. Exaspéré par la suppression d’un train. J’ai sorti mon carnet et ai dessiné un homme avec des valises-fruits secs sous les yeux. C’est allé rapidement mieux. Dessinez dessinez...
Montgé-en-goële — Samedimanche 5-6 juillet 2014 Pluie pluie pluie. M’a remémoré une nouvelle de Bradbury. Une planète où il pleut tout le temps et où les gens deviennent fous. Néanmoins promenade forestière. Il y avai...
London — Nine years ago today, at 09:47, an 18 year-old man called Hasib Hussain detonated a bomb on the top deck of a number 30 bus in Tavistock Square, killing himself and 13 others. The picture shows the m...
Santa fe — Our little casita on Otero is just fifty meters up from the very busy, very narrow Paseo de Peralta. We STOP at this intersection a few times a day. The hollyhocks call attention to the sign, so I ...
Geiranger — Geologically, a fjord (/ˈfjɔərd/ or i/ˈfiːɔərd/; also spelled fiord) is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by glacial erosion… A fjord is formed when a glacier cuts a U-shap...
Saint-guilhem-le-désert — Saint Guilhem le désert is an old medieval village in the South of France. It is also part of Saint James’ way, the pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela. “When there, she said, please light a candl...
Völklingen — Nothing prepared you more thoroughly for adulthood than cars. They were big and important, essential even. Owning a car was proof of being an adult, a serious person, someone to be reckoned with. True...
Seattle — If you’ve considered seeing How to Train Your Dragon 2, be prepared for an enjoyable sequel to a children’s movie… yes, it is possible. In this day and age, I rarely have high hopes for a sequel, b...
London — The next bench that features in my series on the Bloomsbury Book Benches is the one that is located in Queen Square. Pride and Prejudice was written by Jane Austen and published in 1813. I am famili...
Seville — Two traditions illustrate the softness of the Sevillian lifestyle : la siesta, because it’s too hot in the early afternoon to do something else (some have dubbed la siesta the Spanish yoga ) and tapeo...
Rome — BeeTwin, azienda che opera nel mercato libero dell’energia elettrica e del gas naturale, è tra gli sponsor dell’evento “Football Leader”, il premio dell’Associazione Italiana Allenatori che riconosce ...
Kirchheim — Last spring, our tactical situation was often difficult. We had to employ our best knowledge about stealth, infiltration and subversion to fulfill our missions. The enemy was extremely watchful. Scali...
Chame — A 20 day trek in Nepal. A single pack containing next to nothing. I parred the pack down to the bare essentials. If it is not essential for my survival then it didn’t make the cut - yes, the little gr...
Hanoi — I open and close the cupboards in this L-shape studio in Hanoi (home for the next two months) and mentally take notes on the basics missing. I don’t need much but judging by the emptiness, this furnis...
Wellington — Described as “a party game for horrible people”, he couldn’t think of many other times a brief like that had been so apt. He’d not heard of Cards Against Humanity until someone he trusted brought it ...