Author Archives: popagandhi

Into the Heart of South India

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My Life, Too, Has Come to a Standstill Because of a Ball

I like travelling for a few things: food, and football. The first is a given, but the second? I used to be much more involved as a fan of that sport, until club level football started to bore me. International football is always fun though. I don’t really plan these things, but I happen to [...]
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20 Pictures

February to June, iPhone photos. Bangkok, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Chennai, Chengalpattu, Podur, Aramsampatti, many more rural Tamil Nadu locations, shortly before Palakkad, Fort Cochin, Berlin, in no particular order!
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This Little Thing Called Globalization

When I was younger, ah gong used to buy ‘yeor buay’. They came in cans, were quite furry, and inaccurately described by the Chinese manufacturer as ‘arbutus’. Some time in the last few years they disappeared from the shelves in Singapore. I have been looking for them — and have even taken my search to [...]
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Joy on the Orient Express

[The following post was commissioned by BMW for the JOY3D campaign]. I’ve been a solo traveller around the world for most of the last six years. My passport reads less like a book, and more like a game of Risk; it’s the game of me taking over the world one continent at a time, turn [...]
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