Pigeons’ Rock
The Raouché, a timeless symbol of Lebanese capital Beirut is its most famous landmark. Off the coast of Raouché, there is a natural landmark called the Pigeons’ Rock, its Arabic name…
A Prime Minister brought down by a font!
You may have sent an Outlook email to the wrong person or accidentally opened an embarrassing PowerPoint during a meeting, but for Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, one of Microsoft’s…
Jaldapara and Phuentsholing
In the morning, we decided to go to Phuentsholing from Lataguri with our stay at Jaldapara. We had nice breakfast in Lataguri and then drove to Jaldapara. The best part…
Gorumara National Park, Lataguri
Dooars are the alluvial floodplains in northeastern India that lie south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas and north of the Brahmaputra River basin stretching from the Teesta River…
The quintessential Indian snack: Samosa
No evening snack in India can be complete without tea and the quintessential samosa. Samosa is my favourite snack. While enjoying samosa and tea at home in the evening, I…
All conditioned things are impermanent
I was thinking of adding a tagline to this blog for sometime. I was adding a tagline and then after sometime I was changing it. This was going on for…
Climate negotiations and Game theory
President Donald Trump on Thursday, June 1 announced that the U.S. was withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement. The 2015 Paris agreement established a global target for lowering greenhouse-gas emissions…
Iraqi dishes tracing back to Mesopotamian civilization
Yesterday, one of our colleagues invited us to his house for traditional Iraqi lunch. Iraqi cuisine has developed over the course of a long and rich history. Modern day Iraq is,…
