Book tour journals: Mumbai; June 21-22
Amitav GhoshMonsoon on Malabar Hill In Bahram Modi’s time, Malabar Hill (with Walkeshwar) was an island, separated from Colaba by a broad channel. Looking in the…
Goa, Festa of São João (St. John), June 24
The tradition of well jumping is explained here by well-known Goan columnist and blogger, Cecil Pinto:http://www.mail-archive.com/goanet@lists.goanet.org/msg63101.html …
Exodus from Burma, 1941: A Personal Account, Parts 1, 2 & 3
Book tours are punctuated by all kinds of unforeseen encounters: most are pleasant, some are disconcerting, and a few are rewarding beyond all expectation. Thus it happened for example…
Anjali Ghosh, b. 1931
My mother in 1952 shortly after her wedding: And a few years later: And in 1992,…
Letter from a historian
From: Sunil Amrith Subject: re: River of Smoke To: chrestomather@yahoo.in Date: Thursday, 16 June, 2011, 9:52 AM re: River of Smoke Dear Amitav Ghosh, I just wanted to…
Hitchhiking journals: Oxford to Worcester and Aberystwyth, 1979
March 30, 1979 Left Oxford this morning with £ 31- 60 in my pocket. Caught a bus from the Queen’s Lane stop to Woodstock (left my gloves on it)…
Vienna (I think) 1973
Came upon this picture in a family album in Kolkata andwas reminded of a story: 'When it was proposed to the Habsurb Emperor Joseph II to build…
Dayanita Singh
Just returned to New Delhi after hugely successful shows in Boston, Bogota, Amsterdam, the Pompidou Centre, Paris, and, most spectacularly, the Venice Biennale. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgAkMCUGspU
Ratnagiri Journals: 2
Ratnagiri, March 7, 1998 The town is clustered on a hill, turned away from the sea. There is a huge old banyan in the centre of the road…