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Lalit Ashok

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My Passage to India.

The three sweetest words in the Traveller’s Language: All Luggage Arrived Life is good as I sit here beside the pool enjoying breakfast. This is no ordinary weekend – it’s the weekend before Divali, the Festival of Lights (equivalent to…

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Dinner for a King… or just for TJL!

I have eaten every dinner except for last night at my hotel’s restaurant – the Baluchi. The staff have kind of adopted me – they save the same table for me every night. They had promised to feed me the…

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Last day at the office…

I haven’t been here long enough – next time I’ll shoot for another week or two. It was a lovely day after last night’s rain. One of my new friends brought me a string of jasmine – as I had…

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for Jackson and John

Dear Sweet Nephews,Jackson asked about the pool after I mentioned I was sitting near it while writing a blog posting on Wednesday morning. I have breakfast by the pool every morning, and it is quite pretty. There are beautiful blue…

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Reflections on Day 1

This may get long… I’m sittin’ by the pool at 4:30 a.m., drinking strong coffee (has a bit of a chickory taste to it, for those of you who have had that particular coffee in New Orleans), watching the groundskeepers…

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