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Cochin is exotic because it is chaotic, has no order and no explanation. One finds in the flow and if you are lucky you make friends like I have done.…
The Purim greetings I fondly recollect was the one my younger brother Ricardo sent me from Jerusalem in 2009. Two young orthodox Jewish children were dressed in Arab costumes of…
Nowhere in India, one could possibly say, that the local population aware of Cuba as much as they are in Kerala and especially in Fort Cochin with its well aware,…
FORT COCHIN, A SPIRITUAL HOME Even though Fort Cochin cannot give me the exhilaration of walking along the streets of my neighbourhood of Vedado, in La Habana, it has given…
I am unashamedly fond of the little township of Fort Cochin but certainly not for its food. The quality of food in the tourist parts of Fort Cochin is just…
FORT COCHIN A SUMPTUOUS FEAST FOR THE MIND, BODY AND THE SOUL. ONE DAY IN FEBRUARY My choices of places to stay at Fort Cochin are the Old Lighthouse Bristow…
Walking along the windswept coast of this village which has become a tourist destination for the French, I couldnt but think of the poems of Pablo Neruda who had described…
Pablo Neruda had written that if you do not know or have a cultural identity, you are like a boat without an anchor, moving where the wind takes you, without…
Vikas is a Nepali whose family lives in Darjeeling in Northern India at the foot of the Himalayas. He works long hours as a waiter at Elite Restaurant at Princess…
Homecoming to Cochin It is incredible how quickly everything begins to look so familiar and that which once threatened you, no well incorporated into your life There is always love…
I was more than happy to be a guest lecturer at the invitationn of the head of the programme at the Sacred Heart College in Cochin. Meeting the Principal of…
WELCOME HOME A NATIVE AMERICAN WELCOME One of the greatest gifts in my life has been my choice to work with American Indians. The plans were to finish my post…