Further to my previous blog - Thailand: Where Time Loiters Gracefully, my travels continued last month into Vietnam where I spent a week spent tracing the pulse of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) and the slow, resilient breath of its surrounding landscapes. The memory of it still lingers, as vivid as the city’s traffic at … Continue reading A Week Between Memory and Motion
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Thailand: Where Time Loiters Gracefully
When I was younger, travel writing was all text. Long, unhurried accounts with a few photo plates lodged somewhere in the middle of the books, as if to rest the eyes. You travelled first through sentences, not pixels. Now, the world prefers images that flicker and vanish before the thought even forms. But standing amid … Continue reading Thailand: Where Time Loiters Gracefully
Gains from an international conference
Towards the end of August 2015, New Zealand India Research Institute (NZIRI) at Victoria University of Wellington hosted its third international conference focussing on 'India as a Global Power in the Twenty-First Century'. Since its establishment in 2012, NZIRI has been propping up India as some magical emerging power that went into a slumber sometime … Continue reading Gains from an international conference
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