The Hidden History of Bao Ji
Coincidences don’t usually come in stereo. I didn’t invent this word. I just wasn’t the first one to hear it.
Fake Guide Stories of the Taj Mahal and Agra
How do you know when a tour guide is lying? Their lips are moving.
My First Kulhad Chai
twenty Rupees, One Cup, Total Destruction Somewhere on the Yamuna Expressway, between Delhi and Agra, in the kind of darkness that only exists on Indian highways at night, a cup was murdered. There were no streetlights, just the occasional flare of a truck’s high beams and a dhaba glowing up ahead like a campfire. This …
Confessions of A Reluctant Tipper in India
Dancing around it would make the rest of this dishonest: I detest tipping culture.
Inside Delhi’s Brick Kiln Belt
Fixed Chimney Bull’s Trench Kiln, or FCBTK, a technology that’s been in continuous use across the subcontinent for well over a century.
My First Temple Visit in India
My visit to Shri Radha Krishna Mandir, Greater Kailash. I didn’t plan this. It’s not the kind of thing I like to plan. I just waited for it to happen naturally. I was walking and it was there. No maps required.I wasn’t planning to go in. That’s usually how it works. The temple sits in …