Arabian Sea Sunset
Last night I was going back through all the amazing photographs I took while in India last year and wondering...what should I do with them? This one stood out. At least tonight it did, when I'm having that very strong…
Last night I was going back through all the amazing photographs I took while in India last year and wondering...what should I do with them? This one stood out. At least tonight it did, when I'm having that very strong…
Joannes Benedictus van Heutsz was one bad dude. As Military Governor of the Aceh Province in what was then known as the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), van Heutsz set out to crush the twenty-five year old rebellion against the…
A thin man with buck-teeth who had evidently been watching me make my way around the market area asked “How can you put that much food in your body?” I felt guilty for a moment. That first-world guilt when you…
I walked the hill to the fort above the Goa Resort and the Russians didn’t like it. “It is too hot. Get on.” Scooter after scooter passed me, stopped, waited for me to reach them then offered me a ride. …
Of course the Portuguese had gotten all out of control. Timayya had done his work well and the Bijapur kings were out of the way. Goa belonged to Portugal and everyone was rich from slaving and spices. Other than to…
Panaji is a sweet little town strung out along the southern bank of the Mandovi River just above its outlet to the Arabian Sea. It’s friendly for a state capital and very manageable for visitors. The Portuguese-era colonial charms are…
Indian Festivals - Last night we were invited to the harvest festival (Makara Sankranti) for the local village. This was in celebration of the local deity Beeradevaiah, servant of Shiva. Absolutely an incredible experience.
There are tens of millions of muslims in India. Islam is the second-most practiced religion in the Republic of India after Hinduism, with 13.4% of the country's population (over 160 million as per 2001 census). Islam came to India with the Arab merchants and…
Women of Goa. Evening on the Arabian Sea coast south of Panaji. Goa. India.
Ships of the Arabian Sea. Goa, India. January 15, 2012. The Arabian Sea stretches away from the Indian Ocean north of an imaginary line drawn from Cape Comorin, at the southern tip of India, to Cape Guardafui, at the eastern…
Further up into the swampy delta of the Mandovi River, in the foothills to the southeast of Panaji, lie several organic farms and some spice plantations that claim an ecological focus. A patient young man of thirty years took me there…