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Travel Reports from Asia
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My First Days
in Southern India
Volumes have been written trying to describe India, but I can hardly
remember anything I see, as one memory is trampled by the next. Just
walking around a city block is enough for your senses to last a week. |
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Desperate
for Peace in Sri Lanka
Stainless steel cups of tap water were poured for us, and without
hesitation she drank. I was stunned. "You drink the water?!" She thought
it was a question of taste. "Do you think it's bad? I've had it before.
It's OK." |
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Halfway Up the Banana
Pancake Trail
On the door of the air-conditioned dormitory was a sign: "Dear Traveller,
If you are complaining about bedbugs, with all due respect, YOU probably
brought them from your previous stop." |
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Singapore
on a Full Stomach
Many foods sound like they have no business being delicious but often
are. Among these are otah-otah, ais kacang, and durian (a spiky fruit,
razor-sharp to the touch, with a pungent smell so potent it is forbidden
in Singapore's subway system.) |
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Japan
By Thumb
A young couple in a van picked me up. They had traveled around America
and loved it. They enthusiastically told of scams, rip-offs, bad service,
and disagreeable people encountered on their trip, and the woman added
with satisfaction, "I feel so free in America". |
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A Tale of
Two Silicon Valleys
The fortunes of California's and India's Silicon Valleys are increasingly
tied together. How did Bangalore assume its role in both places and
where does it stand now? |
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