McLeodganj/Dharamshala has all the signs of a tired tourist haunt: ugly neon signs, ungainly buildings and stories of drugs and whores. But the air is still crisp, the mountains majestic and the cake memorable
Picking apples, nicking them, discovering quaint characters, savouring shakkar paaras and milking cows in Thanedhar
Srinagar is not an escape in any ordinary sense of the term. But it is still a question one can answer
The rocky attractions of Marlboro Land, spotting tree lions in Tanzania, and comparing genes with orangutans in Borneo
Memories of my grandparents in Jakarta, my wife’s roots in Dubrovnik, and tequila-soaked undergrad afternoons in Santa Fe
Jordan is a desert land windswept with whispers of religious and historical grandeur more than of rebellion and political grandstanding