Transgenders from all over Tamil Nadu – and some from outside – dress up, dance, and compete in a beauty contest that’s not the one you usually hear about. Behind a marriage hall in Villupuram – named, somewhat ironically, Sri Anjaneya, after a deity who opted to remain wifeless – I run into Shakila, a… [Read more…]
March 2, 2012
Melbourne’s laneways offer a myriad of quietly spectacular sights and sounds. How do you fill up a morning in Melbourne? If you have a thing for skyscrapers, especially those whose top floors are gold-plated on the outside, you could stop by Eureka Tower at the Southbank precinct, hop into the elevator, shoot up to the… [Read more…]
February 3, 2012
Ambling around Adelaide, fingers fervently crossed at the prospect of slipping into the final test match at the Oval. The twenty-sixth of January, our Republic Day, is also Australia Day. The Advertiser, a newspaper whose name suggests an unblushing commitment to its priorities, asks its readers about their holiday plans. Tenille Aberle from Mawson Lakes… [Read more…]
May 13, 2011
Taking a stroll around Lake Zurich, watching ordinary people do ordinary things. All these years of air travel after, there’s still the suggestion of science fiction about being in Chennai one Wednesday afternoon, struggling to squeeze everything into hand baggage while remembering to empty the refrigerator, and finding yourself, a day later, strolling beside Lake… [Read more…]
March 13, 2008
EASTERN PROMISES MAR 14, 2008 – WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT THE MAKINGS OF A GOOD JOURNALIST, the qualities that usually come up are resourcefulness or interpersonal skills or a burning desire to dig into the bottom of things. But on a recent trip to Thailand, I had to draw from my wellspring of that other… [Read more…]
June 12, 2007
 ZEST LA VIE In which I find out how different a vacation in ho-hum Kodaikanal can be… JUNE 10, 2007 – SOMETHING CURIOUS HAPPENS when you bite into mint chutney sandwiches in the middle of a forest â while squatting on an outcropping of rock on a trickle of a stream, and surrounded by… [Read more…]
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