Apr 15, 2019
CHETTINAD FOOD IN LONDON AND YET ANOTHER KERALA ENCOUNTER
The night was chilly, but the damp cold of London did not hinder my walking around my most centrally based hotel in London. I was determined to eat South Indian…
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Mar 15, 2019
THE TOLERANT MULTICULTURALISM OF YANGON MYANMAR
Rangoon 2019 Pablo Neruda was posted as Chilean Consul to Burma in 1927 Neruda wrote evocatively of Myanmar’s bustling, multiethnic colonial capital: “The street became my religion. The Burmese street,…
Mar 15, 2019
KERALA FOLLOWS ME AROUND… LATELY MEETING SYRIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS IN MY TRAVELS
Kerala follows me around ...? I do not travel to INDIA but paradoxically enough once every two months, Manolo the driver from Bristows Bungalow, the only hotel facing the ocean…
Jan 15, 2019
SCREAM MUNCH AGONY OF THE TIMES
Oslo and Norway hold special places in my heart. For a naive australian young man visiting northern europe for the first time and incredibly susceptible to the romance of the…
Dec 15, 2018
MY FIRST TRIP ON GEORGIAN AIRWAYS PARIS TO TBILISI TO TEL AVIV
I do not make my travel plans far in advance and this time of the year is dreadful for spontaneous travel. I wanted to go from Miami to Brussels, spend…
Nov 15, 2018
A GREAT HONOUR TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE MEMORY OF THE GREATEST ADMIRAL OF THE SEVEN SEAS CHENG HO/ZHENG HE
I cannot remember when I first heard about Cheng HO, the greatest navigator who travelled the realms of the Ming dynasty over the course of many journeys, as far as…
Aug 15, 2018
POOR COMPLICATED STATE OF DIABETES CARE IN THE USA : DRUG COMPANIES AND PROFESSOR PAWNS
Despite the enormous amount of money poured into the system, the diabetes care outcome in the Unites States remain dramatically UNCHANGED over the years. There has been an onslaught of…
Aug 15, 2018
UNTIL DEATH DO WE PART: MODERN WORK CULTURE AND DEATH AND DISEASE
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Jul 15, 2018
AMAZING SPIRIT WORLD OF AMAZONIA
0 0 1 634 3615 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 30 8 4241 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE --> AMAZING SPIRIT WORLD OF AMAZONIA READING…
Jul 15, 2018
ANOTHER DEFINITION OF TOURIST AND ITS DISTINCTION FROM TRAVELLER
A tourist may arrive at a destination or a place, perhaps because of a PUSH factor in their life, failed romance or marriage; workplace, with difficulties with co workers or…
Jun 15, 2018
HOW TO EAT HUMMUS LESSON FROM HAIFA
Recently I had the chance to taste Hummus at Resto Said's, in the Akko Souq. Said family have been serving Hummus at this location from the Ottoman times and the…
Jun 15, 2018
WHERE DID THE INDIANS GO ? AN INDIGENOUS HISTORY
I was not aware of this book, nor of the reviewer a Canadian by the name of Bhupinder Singh. I have reproduced the entire review for people interested in the…