Bangalore/Bengaluru
India developed and excelled in the art of Billboard Advertising from early on in the 20th century. The intensity of their commercial displays continue although gone are the beautifully… Read more »
Author Archives: Varya
Rural Karnataka
I arrive into Bangalore at night and feel like I am coming home when I enter Gayathri’s home. But I have little time to explore the urban changes, as Gayathri,… Read more »
Kannur Rituals
From the sands of the Arabian Peninsula, I fly to the heart of tropical India on the North Kerala Coast, to Kannur, chosen for a few days of quiet and… Read more »
Protected: Faces of Dubai
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Atacama Last Perspective
When we arrived at our 7900 feet altitude, acclimation was necessary and we did not start our first excursion until the following afternoon. We drove to the Valley of the… Read more »
Atacama First Perspective
What makes the Atacama region so remarkable is not only that it includes the highest desert and clearest night skies in the world but that it displays a remarkable variation… Read more »
Touring Torres Del Paine
We are in Chile. The crossing from Argentina was classic: the Chilean border officer’s computer broke down so we stood outside in cold weather for well over an hour together… Read more »
Enjoying El Calafate
Tourists flock to the burgeoning city of El Calafate mainly in order to visit the Pepito Moreno Glacier, a massive glacier which, when I was here in 2014, was the… Read more »
Extraordinary El Chalten
We are heading now to El Chalten, from the dry grassy plains beloved by the guanacos to the high mountains of the Andes whose glaciers bring water to the dry… Read more »
Bahia Bustamante: North Patagonia
A cerulean blue ocean is outside my window in this exceptional location in Patagonia. Bahia Bustamante is a small collection of buildings developed by an immigrant who started a seaweed… Read more »