How To Kill Your Daughter? A feather a night while she sleeps. You pluck her wings with a knife. One by one so she doesn’t feel a twinge. When at last you’ve scrapped her skin raw. You sit her down at the dinner table. And tell her she’s now free to fly. Again she’ll ask her; maaye ni meriye…Chamba kitni durr? You smile … Continue reading 4/24
Every traveler knows that feeling. That hmmm feeling when we finally get to a place. We dream. We research. We plan. We pack. We set out. We slip. We scratch our heads. We smile. We pause. And we pull up. But sometimes when we get there, that’s about it. There are no pots of luck, bags of gold or a story that somebody before you hasn’t discovered. … Continue reading THE Mount Everest
I was wrong about 3 things. That Kathmandu was a hilly city on the mountains. It’s in a valley. Kathmandu Valley. Mostly flat, surrounded by snowy mountain peaks. That Nepal and India were the same-same. A bit like saying an Indo descent from Trinidad is the same as an Indian from the motherland. Of course, it’s not the same thing. They don’t do baigan surwa in … Continue reading Waiting on the Rains in Kathmandu
You know that feeling in the morning after a big night out? Your head is going doosh, doosh, doosh…your stomach is like you’ve been on the ferries wheel a ride too long, your legs hurt in places you didn’t know you had muscles and you just want to die. And in your agony, you promise to the Gods above that you will never ever let … Continue reading India to Nepal: A 2-Day Journey
Where is Shyamni? 