Moonballs from Planet Earth

Planning a trip from Mumbai to Goa? Drive. It’s more satisfying than flying. Our family drove from Mumbai to Goa and back last week. It’s ...

The Tube is on strike today. Everybody's cursing (including me). Meaning, it's not a bad day to remember one of my favourite poems,...

NYC taxi I was flying from New York to Frankfurt. I got a taxi in New York. My cabbie was a brown skinned guy with an accent. "W...

In Samuel Beckett's "Endgame", the madman Hamm stands at the asylum window staring at the beautiful seasi...

Palio di Siena at the Piazza di Campo There is a general perception that a great sporting event that harks back to antiquity and deli...

Watched the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Much Ado About Nothing last weekend, and loved it. The magic ingredient? It...

Luke Skywalker strides towards the twin sunset on Tatooine I'd posted yesterday about the poem "Keep Ithaka always in the mi...

Spent fifteen minutes or so staring at these words on the London Underground: The world`s great age begins anew, The golden years...

Pisa's Galileo Galilei airport is the largest in Tuscany. Hundreds of thousands of tourists will pass through this summer, on their way...

Jalaluddin Rumi was wandering the streets of Konya, overcome with grief at the death of a dear friend, when he was captured by the rhythmic ...

I had been in Istanbul for a couple of days, gamely drinking Turkish coffee to keep my clients company. Now, my soul craved the familiar com...

"And then a scholar said, Speak of Talking. And he answered, saying... In much of your talking, thinking is half-murdered. For thought ...

I spread my map out across the reception desk, pointed to a scribble on a chit of paper, and asked the concierge, "How do I get to this...