INDIA | Monday, 28 Jan 2008 | Views [752] | Comments [1]
The surprisingly alert attendant directs us to the platform. We are weary, but bright red signs are flashing ‘welcome’ in English and Hindi, so we smile, and perk up. The huge digital clock flashes 5.53. We are three minutes late for our early morning ... Read more >
Tags: On the Road
PAKISTAN | Monday, 7 Jan 2008 | Views [672]
Young boys and men throw their simple paper and bamboo kites high above their heads to catch a gust of wind. The winning gust takes their kite on a one kilometer journey into the sky. It is a challenge getting it to catch onto that one breath of ... Read more >
Tags: People
PAKISTAN | Saturday, 29 Dec 2007 | Views [694]
The children don't stop playing, they take advantage of the empty streets. Games of cricket are set up in every other empty alley and street. The sounds of laughter, cheers, makeshift cricket bats whacking makeshift balls echo off the closed facades.... Read more >
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PAKISTAN | Tuesday, 18 Dec 2007 | Views [721]
A wrong way walk down the ganda-nella highway (the open-sewer highway) was frustrating and confusing mostly for me - but also for the hundreds of rickshaw, car and truck drivers, and especially the police roaming the side of the busy, stinky road. ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
