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April 2025

Saligao Summer: A walk with Bhai Damodar Mauzo
The acclaimed writer took us on a curated walk through his village and shared his childhood and adult memories with us.
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Saligao Summer: Saturday with a Jazz Legend
Panjim residents marked International Jazz Day a few days early with a Braz Gonsalves. I was happy to be in the audience with a large number of…
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Saligao Summer: A trip south to Panjim and Margao
In some ways Goa feels like Italy, a place where every small town and city has its own unique culture and beauty.
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Saligao Summer: Music for the Heart and Soul
A private invitee-only concert was just the balm that I needed on a day when tempers were higher than the temperature
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Saligao Summer: Life in a small Goan town
There is a definite sense of community in this charming collection of overgrown villages.
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Saligao Summer: A Goan Easter
This is the first in a series of posts about my summer sojourn in this tranquil town in north Goa
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March 2025

Moscow Diaries: Until Next Time
It's never a happy feeling to leave my favourite city on the planet, but I am quite sure the gap between this and next trip will not be too long.
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Moscow Diaries: Road Tripping to Zaraysk
A day-trip to a historic town that dates back to the 12th century gave me a tiny glimpse of life outside the capital on a late-winter day.
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Moscow Diaries: An Evening at Gnessin
The new generation of talented young musicians will do Russia proud over the next few decades. I am proud to have made friends with one such young man.
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Moscow Dairies: My Favourite Metro Station
The station named after the great Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky is aesthetically pleasing, unique and futuristic like his poems.
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