Hola, Guadalajara!

Guadalajara? Where is that? How do you say it, again? In my home city of Mumbai, three continents, an ocean and a sea away from Mexico, most of us knew very little about the country. We knew it was the poor, desperate neighbor of the almighty USA and a haven for drug cartels that kidnapped […]

Colours and Cazuela

I had seen instaperfect pictures of a pretty street covered with hanging umbrellas. So I headed to Tlaquepaque, practicing the tongue-twisting pronunciation (Tla-keh-pa-keh) over a 20 minute Uber ride from Plaza Del Sol in Guadalajara. But the second I stepped off the cab, I was swept away by the colors and beauty of this quaint […]

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What’s in a Name?

I can’t let go. For as long as I can remember, I have had deep attachments to people, things, places, memories and even some meals. I’m thirty now but my closest friends are a small group of great girls who came into my life between the 4th and 12th grades. I still have the Walkman […]

A Night with Hahalua Yana

I watched her glide around, mesmerized by her fluid grace and lazy curiosity. Shy, playful and utterly charming, she ignored me. I understood, there were so many others to distract her that evening. But let me begin at the beginning. I had landed in quaint little Kona airport from Oahu just that morning. Driving through […]

Blood Moon

A sharp knock on the door startled us in our beds. The first instinct was fear, being two young women in the politically charged and often unstable region of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir in India. I asked who it was, sounding braver than I felt. To our relief, we heard the familiar voice of […]