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Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan

Lafcadio Hearn

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To the Friends Whose Kindness Alone Rendered Possible My Sojourn in the Orient, Paymaster Mitchell McDonald, U.S.N. And Basil Hall Chamberlain, Esq. Emeritus Professor Of Philology And Japanese In ...

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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Sir John Mandeville

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For as much as the land beyond the sea, that is to say the Holy Land, that men call the Land of Promission or of Behest, passing all other lands, is the most worthy land, most excellent, and lady and ...

Best Weekend Destination: Lasdowne

ajit kumar

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https://travelkahaniya.blogspot.com/2018/09/best-weekend-destination-lasdowne.html ...

Another Day in Paradise

Sarah Farheen

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I haven’t booked the fucking tickets. Stomach’s growling and the acids are churning. Why is that woman staring at me? Why do women stare at me? Oh my God, I haven’t booked my tickets. What the hell ...

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Kangaroo

David Herbert Lawrence

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A bunch of workmen were lying on the grass of the park beside Macquarie Street, in the dinner hour. It was winter, the end of May, but the sun was warm, and they lay there in shirt-sleeves, talking. ...

Trans-Musings IV On the Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

Ananya Dutta Gupta

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Having lived longest in Kolkata, briefly in Oxford, long in Santiniketan and briefest in Bolpur, in that chronological order, I often find myself thinking about Aesop’s timeless fable. Interestingly, ...

Trans-Musings VII On Spaces

Ananya Dutta Gupta

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I write this essay days after Gravity won seven Oscars. The idea of ‘space’ as an alternative extra-terrestrial space or site where man and the earth are decentred, where all that we human beings ...

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Twilight in Italy

David Herbert Lawrence

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Trans-Musings I On Travel

Ananya Dutta Gupta

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In early modern England, where my mind tends to travel very often, scholars just out of university were expected to travel abroad for recreation and practical exposure. I have just completed a ...

Trans-Musings II On Death

Ananya Dutta Gupta

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My last essay was about the banality of travel in our time. This one could well have been about the banality of death these days, the callous forgetfulness of the living towards the dead. Deaths of ...

Revverie

Parth Pandya

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The city deconstructed and reconstructed itself around his bike. It was as if he was flowing through a viscous fluid, cutting a straight line across the forces that were trying to hold him back. They ...

Trans-Musings III On Prejudices

Ananya Dutta Gupta

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My mother informed me in a hushed tone, "It's a proper Muslim driver, dress, white skull cap and all." I smiled back. There could have been a trace of condescension in my smile. [I wish I carried a ...

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Travels through France and Italy

Tobias Smollett

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I Many pens have been burnished this year of grace for the purpose of celebrating with befitting honour the second centenary of the birth of Henry Fielding; but it is more than doubtful if, when the ...

Trans-Musings IX On Clothes and Free Will

Ananya Dutta Gupta

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Around the age that I have just reached, my maternal grandfather quit wearing the Western suit and settled permanently for the dhoti and the kurta , better known as the panjabi in Bengali. My ...

Trans-Musings V On Maids and their Mistresses

Ananya Dutta Gupta

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The other day I was struck with horror when my son with the characteristically brutal candour of a child referred to his “Gitamashi”, the girl who has lived with and worked at my parents’ home for ...

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Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Best Weekend Destination: Lasdowne

Another Day in Paradise

Kangaroo

Trans-Musings IV On the Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

Trans-Musings VII On Spaces

Twilight in Italy

Trans-Musings I On Travel

Trans-Musings II On Death

Revverie

Trans-Musings III On Prejudices

Travels through France and Italy

Trans-Musings IX On Clothes and Free Will

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