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travel

And All The Roads That Lead You There Were Winding

By popagandhi | Published: 12 May, 2009
I came to the Middle East to do just one thing: see a part of the world that I felt I needed to learn more about. Its language was alien, but familiar – many Malay and Hindi words have roots in Arabic. Its customs and food strange, but not dissimilar – much of the Indian [...]
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Five things I won’t leave home without

By popagandhi | Published: 2 March, 2009
I can do 40-hour train rides across India. I will share a bed in Marseille with a dreadlocked, horny French boy (long story). I don’t mind riding sampans down a river in Borneo at dawn, with only two hungover boatmen and a torchlight guiding us. I’ll let myself be stuck in middle of bloody nowhere, [...]
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Know Your Camel

By popagandhi | Published: 24 January, 2009
Home, sweet home — or homes. It’s a happy, festive season. I made it to Madras and Pondicherry for Christmas, KL for New Year, London for someone’s birthday, am now on my way to Singapore for Chinese New Year, and will klaap baan tii krung thep for post-Chinese New Year business. And I’m kind of tired of [...]
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Diplomats and Physically Challenged Only

By popagandhi | Published: 25 December, 2008
Four years ago about this time I was sitting in a hotel room in Darjeeling. Drinking Indian whisky with a friend, listening to him tell me his sob story. I’m a bit of a bloke that way — the only way I know how to comfort a man is to buy him more whisky, and [...]
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Fortylove.tv is Rolling

By popagandhi | Published: 22 December, 2008
Forty videos, twenty weeks. Begins now at fortylove.tv. Is English food really bad? Is Dubai really all about malls, construction, and refrigerated beaches and indoor ski resorts? Who in their right mind would travel 1000 kilometres by auto rickshaw in India? (No one, except the 27 contestants of the Rickshaw Challenge.. and.. me, it seems.) What [...]
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