June 2008
6 posts
as an aside: The Spiritual Quest
In an email to a friend a few weeks back, I mentioned that this India trip has been less of a spiritual journey and more of an economic one. I’ve been meeting people and trying to figure out how they find their place in the world, trying to understand how the jigsaw pieces of these small economies fit together. I think that I’ve been doing a good job of it; my notepad reflects some...
The view from here
After a day and a night of travel, and before one night more, I sat in room 407 of the Vishwaranta Hotel in Guwahati, wrestling with the front desk in the hopes of getting a wireless connection. Leafed through Lonely Planet in the wait; it described Guwahati as a town that “isn’t beautiful,” and advised travlers to “Come here to arrange tours … then move on...
The Two Markets
Again with the cross-posting. Sorry about that. It just kinda feels like a necessary followup to the City Market post.
left, City Market, Bangalore, in the shadow of Mysore Road; right, Indigo Nation, about 5 miles east, 100-Foot Road, Indiranagar. I’m reading Thomas Friedman’s award-winning 2005 book “The World is Flat” at the moment. In case you haven’t read it,...
From the notepad: City Market
I spent yesterday in City Market, a kind of a sprawling open-air marketplace sitting in the shadow of a flyover. Sights and sounds came hard and fast there, but one image struck me. Somewhere between the mother and child selling coconuts and the old lady rearranging greens, the bearded man selling cheap watches and the father and son selling cheap radios, I saw a woman, seated, in a turquoise...
