Poison Cake, Varanasi

A delicious fruit cake would be nice for our train journey I thought. The guy wrapped it cleverly in two card squares for me. It was only when we opened it that we noticed what that cardboard had been in a previous life. I ate it anyway knowing that if I did die as a result, at least I wasn't going to have any problems with fungus.

Blame it on the Sexbots

December 28th 2008
Do you like India? It’s a question all the Indians we meet like to ask after “which country?”, “what is your job?” and “is she your girlfriend?”. I’ve thought about the answer to this question quite a bit and had plenty of time to consider a polite enough response that doesn’t involve lying (diplomacy is something I am hugely successful with - why they haven’t yet involved me ... read more

Asia » India

The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more

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