Travel
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(Published in Tripatini.com) The spritely deer, nosing their way around on Miyajima Island, 10 miles from Hiroshima in the Seto Inland Sea and a sacred Shinto and Buddhist site, remind me of Sarnath (Varanasi), in the hot, dusty plains of North India. It was in Sarnath, called ‘Mrigadava’ or deer park, that Buddha gave his first… Read more
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The best way to know a city, especially a city like Toronto with its pockets of antiquity and panache, is walking. I do not know about others but using the services of my two legs gives me a sense of permeability, of understanding a city’s past and present, the mysteries and marvels of urbanity and… Read more
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The surprising part is that I am not a food person but gastronomic interjections have always been lurking in the background. In the 1970s while in the midst of understanding the nuances of the Romantic poets P B Shelly, Keats and William Wordsworth ( for Bachelors at Allahabad University) I would willingly miss lectures to gormandize on… Read more
