I couldn't spot much of the dawn from where I was sitting. The sky was blue, splotched with a gelatenous cloud that stretched like cotton wool above the edge of the far wall. My breakfast table sat 25 feet...

It would be wrong to say that my second day in India started off as a smashing success. I had arranged with my colleagues to meet them at the office at 10AM. This would give me ample time to...

One article I read before leaving for India (and, truthfully, the only article about the country that I read before leaving for India) said that "encountering India is like being whirled around inside an unimaginably thrilling kaleidoscope." I didn't...

Most airlines in the United States would have you believe that they are in the "transportation business" -- as if somehow humans were just cargo moving from point A to point B. The Europeans are not absent from this...