Travel
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“As an adult traveling alone in a remote and cut off places, I learned a great deal about the world and myself: the strangeness, the joy, the liberation and truth of travel…..”. Hong Kong is not a remote place by any dot of imagination but even in crowds one can look for alone-ness. Sharing an… Read more
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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
Journies of change 