Having gone through the historical connectedness of India and Indonesia and certain social aspects, I’m sure, you’d be keen to know more about my ‘tourist’ experiences there. ..

I spent a week, 7 nights to be precise - 5 in Bandung & 2 in Jakarta - in Indonesia in December 2016. I had gone there to participate in the 10th Asia-pacific Veterans’ Table Tennis tournament, held in Bandung, the 3rd largest city of that country ..

Many years later when I Google-searched Phahurat out of nostalgic curiosity, I found that king Chulalongkorn (Rama-V) had named it in the 19th century after his daughter Bahurada (Sanskrit Bahuratha, meaning endowed with many chariots), which now ..

I mentioned about my short tours within Paris city limits along with my French teacher, in last part. The highlight of one of such tours was a 17th century restaurant near metro station Odeon, which is operational and in regular business for last ..

It may not be an exaggeration to say that the word magnificent may fall short to describe the city's beauty; it's simply magical. It's a living example of how the French respect their history and how much they care for what they think stands testimony ..

One may wonder as to why I chose the title the way it is. It is to show the civilisational proximity and inseparability of the two countries. It hit me so strikingly that I couldn’t have done differently. You’d get to know about it as follows:..

I had stayed for a week on work in Johannesburg (popularly Jo’burg) of the ‘Rainbow Republic’ i.e. South Africa, in January 2011. Although I didn’t have much opportunity to move around freely, I did gather a few observations – the local, the glocal ..

Thailand is a highly tourist-friendly country, and earns major revenue through international tourists. I have visited Thailand half a dozen times between 1999 and 2013, making it a trip every two and a quarter year, though that wasn’t exactly the ..

We looked at the presence of India or the Indian subcontinent in Paris, in the 1st part. We will now look at how certain French people I came across, felt connected with India and such things...