Incheon Airport
Some nice touches here. Otherwise completely sterile like every other airport.
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Celebrating a friend
I lost a friend last week. I am not alone. The world lost a son, a brother, a uncle, a boyfriend, a friend, and more importantly a thoughtful sincere person to trust and to lean on. He was only 34, and we lost him so soon. But here I am writing to celebrate a life that, even in its brevity, was lived more fully than most of us could ever hope to.He was strength without noise, courage without compl...
Bullet train
If air travel is miraculous, traveling at close to airline speeds on the ground is utterly discombobulating. Achieving take off speeds but sticking very reliably and steadily to terra firma while the landscape, concrete and otherwise, just runs past you into irrelevance. Witchcraft.
Commercial
The beauty and achievement of commercial aviation is lost on us. As if its just a walk in the park to put 300 people in a tube in some luxury, with some luggage and chuck it reliably through the air at 500 kph through no oxygen and no heat and yet arrive safely at your destination. A towering achievement of human ingenuity and desperation.
Sameer Gudhate on Forever Maya: The Tigress I Never Saw… Yet Will Never Forget
There are some lives you don’t witness… yet they find a way to stay with you.I never saw Maya in real life. No safari sighting, no fleeting glimpse through the lens, no moment where the forest held its breath and revealed her. And yet, somewhere between these pages of Forever Maya by Anant Sonawane, that absence quietly stopped mattering. Because this isn’t a book that lets you remain outside the ...
Sip, Read, Review– “A Patch Of Sun, A Patch Of Shade” by Vidya Nesarikar
An observant, bubbling, enthusiastic Lali comes to a coffee estate in Karnataka with her parents. Her parents are employed at the coffee plantation as daily wage workers. She befriends Champa, the daughter of the estate owner. The two girls are very different from one another, yet they complement each other. The rural Kannada context is shown in the food, names of people, setup of dusty roads, gre...
Walking Around
Just a stroll in a strange city where the words don't make sense. Pretty relaxing.
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