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Daybreak on the Other Side

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

MUMBAI—The day is breaking, all full of fog and blowing curtains of rain. There is the feeling of being on an alien planet, one much like our own but strange enough that you are always reminded how far you are from home. It is in the details of commonplace or ubiquitous things, details of things […]

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Monsoon Five Scenes

Saturday, June 20, 2015
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The Colors of Water

Thursday, June 18, 2015
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Five Scenes

Monday, June 15, 2015
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Walking in the Monsoon

Monday, June 15, 2015

MUMBAI—I walked today. I left and turned right, made my way south and west, following my instincts and occasionally my compass. Two blocks from our apartment the hard rain began. It rained and it rained and there was nothing to do but be wet and try to not think about what might be in the […]

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Holding Back the Heavens

Sunday, June 7, 2015

MUMBAI—For weeks people have been dying across India. The heat is staggering. It has a weight and presence to it like a living, dangerous thing. I stand in the cool night looking over the tall, lighted buildings and the dark street below. Figures glide from glowing streetlight pools and disappear into black shadow, reappear and disappear again. In […]

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