Guggenheim Bilbao June 28, 2012 The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is like an enormous golden flower blooming by the side of a bridge upon a river. I suppose it would have been a great idea in Norway or Sweden, where … Continue reading
Abundance June 27, 2012 (The dates on all these blogs are scrambled up. Actually they start on June 18th and go on from there, almost every day or every other dy. I messed up on that.) My friend Adria always … Continue reading
June 25 2012 Dialing the TV channel years ago, I stumbled upon a Katherine Hepburn movie. In my memory, this movie is in black and white, perhaps because the TV was black and white. What a silly movie, I thought … Continue reading
In Leonardo Da Vinci’s Garden I sit in the garden of my Chambre d’Hote in the Loire Valley, and surprisingly I do not feel sad. I just ate my dinner here at the outdoor dining table, a hodgepodge of taboule … Continue reading
22nd June, 2012 I went to see the pre-historic cro-magnon caves today. And what I realized was that the cro-magnon man was wiser than me. Because the cro-magnon crawled inside caves that were 10 kms deep to paint. She drew … Continue reading
June 23 I am sitting at a café in Sarlat, hoping to get breakfast. It isn’t as easy as it sounds. For, French culture is far too complicated, subtle, and sophisticated for anything as simple as a ton load of … Continue reading
Letter from the Loire Valley I am sitting in a beautiful spacious room in the most divine bed and breakfast place in the world. Outside my large window, birds are calling. Nearby is the Loire river, with its winding sprawling … Continue reading
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL. Director: John Madden. Players: Judi Dench, Dev Patel, Bill Nighy, Tena Desae, Penelope Wilton, Celia Imrie, Ronald Pickup with Tom Wilkinson and Maggie Smith. Theatrical release: Fox Searchlight. The premise of the film is quite … Continue reading
My first day in the United States was so bright, I thought I had flown around the world and returned to India again. I was wearing a blue and white nylon sari, my hair was done in a braid hanging … Continue reading
When I started writing political commentaries, I swore I would never touch one subject–Israel. Because if I had said anything that was not in line with official foreign policy, I would probably have gotten blacklisted and no one would have … Continue reading