I finally bit the bullet and put this page/website together. After finally getting a house in Goa, I was tired of getting all my news about Goa, from a bunch of disparate sources from all over. So I created my own page with feeds from a bunch of websites I like, and viola! GoaPress.com lives. […]
Back to Darjeeling, not the city but the “Limited” soundtrack…love the Kinks, always have, though I suppose I got into them late, when “Give The People What They Want” came out–(1983?) over here in the states, I was 13 or 14 and fell in love. Yes, I suppose I was a late Kink’s fan. There […]
I just read an article in the NYT about tea in Darjeeling (where my husband roamed the streets and the halls of his school for many a year–now he refuses to drink a drop of tea! He also introduced me to momos (Tibetan potstickers) another Darjeeling speciality, thou I’ve never had them in Darjeeling having […]
I’ve been reading Speak, Memory , Nabokov’s memoir of his childhood in Russia and glimpses of his later years abroad. All biographies in a sense should be like his; a mishmash of the mundane (endless descriptions of a succession of tutors), minute details of daily activities (his tireless endeavor of butterflies in the fields) and […]
Although the movie’s getting mixed reviews the soundtrack kicks ass. Some great Kinks’ songs and original scores from Satyajit Ray’s films.
Here’s a great roundup of the best Indian Travel articles of 2007 from the Times Online . The articles are directly linked below: Do the hippies still run Goa? India’s 12 best hotels Tales from a Himalayan hill station The story of India and me India’s stone Kama Sutra Kolkata: India with soul Varanasi, a […]