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शॉर्ट हिल्स का हिमपात

आज सुबह से ही बर्फ गिर रही है। नहीं, बर्फ गिर रही है यह कहना पूरा सही नहीं होगा । गिरने में तो एक अनिच्छा, असहायता का भाव है। बर्फ गिर नहीं रही है, असल में बर्फ झर रही है, अपनी इच्छा से, अनायास, और संभवतः पूरे मन से, खुश होकर। इस झरन में भी एक लय है, संगीत है, नृत्य है। रसिक हृदय वालोंContinue reading “शॉर्ट हिल्स का हिमपात”

The Tyranny of Routine, the Seduction of Comfort

An Essay on How I Turn Every Vacation into a Mirror of Domestic Life Travel, they say, is meant to free us—from routine, from predictability, from the familiar tyranny of our own habits. It is meant to unsettle us gently, to loosen our rituals, to introduce us to novelty with a forgiving smile. umour, satire.This,Continue reading “The Tyranny of Routine, the Seduction of Comfort”

A Brief Tryst with Snow

I stepped out for a late afternoon walk on the roads of Short Hills, just after the land had been laid under a six-inch white carpet of snow. Overnight, the world had been quietly rewritten. Familiar streets, hedges, mailboxes, roofs, and lawns had surrendered their individual identities and merged into a single, dazzling expanse ofContinue reading “A Brief Tryst with Snow”

What a Week Teaches Us About Life

As I prepare to leave Punta Cana—this sliver of sunlit earth bordered by warm winds and waters of impossible blue—I find myself gathering the week not just into my suitcase, but into my thoughts. A vacation, I realise, is not merely a pause from life; it is a concentrated version of it. In seven days,Continue reading “What a Week Teaches Us About Life”

A Caribbean in a Glass: The Rum Soul of Punta Cana

A Spirit with a Long Memory There are drinks you sip, and there are drinks you inherit—flavours carried through centuries, weathered by wind, sea, sugar, and story. In the Dominican Republic, and in Punta Cana in particular, rum is not merely a spirit; it is the distilled memory of the Caribbean. Spend even a weekContinue reading “A Caribbean in a Glass: The Rum Soul of Punta Cana”

Discovering Dominican Cuisine in Punta Cana

An Invitation to Taste Punta Cana may be best known for its ethereal natural beauty—long belts of powdered white sand and the shimmering interplay of Atlantic and Caribbean waters creating a shifting tapestry of emerald and turquoise—but its culinary landscape offers discoveries of a gentler, more intimate kind. Alongside its vibrant beverages and relaxed islandContinue reading “Discovering Dominican Cuisine in Punta Cana”

Eyes of the Earth: Punta Cana’s Indigenous Forest Reserve

Punta Cana is often spoken of in the language of beaches—turquoise waters, powdered-sugar sands, coconut groves bending into Caribbean winds. Yet, just a short distance from the familiar rhythm of surf and sun lies a quieter, older heartbeat: a 15,000-acre subtropical forest that the sea breezes seem to guard like a secret. Known today asContinue reading “Eyes of the Earth: Punta Cana’s Indigenous Forest Reserve”

Dinner on the Water: A Seafood Evening at La Yola, Punta Cana Resort

La Yola There are restaurants that become destinations not only for their food, but for what they represent—history, setting, and a certain idea of a place. La Yola, set within the serene Punta Cana Resort in the Dominican Republic, is one such name: a restaurant that has floated for nearly three decades on the edge ofContinue reading “Dinner on the Water: A Seafood Evening at La Yola, Punta Cana Resort”

Thanksgiving Feast: Living Story of Native American Cuisine

The Thanksgiving spread Every Thanksgiving, the American table displays a familiar repast- a fetching riot of colour—golden turkey skin crackling in the oven, cranberry sauce glowing like a jewel, cornbread warm enough to melt butter on contact. Yet few of us pause to wonder how these foods arrived here, or whose hands shaped them first. SoContinue reading “Thanksgiving Feast: Living Story of Native American Cuisine”

THANKSGIVING AND THE AMERICAN CONSCIENCE: A THREE PART REFLECTION-PART III

Intertwined Destinies: A Shared, Fractured, And Enduring Legacy If the first two parts of this essay trace the movement of history—the rise, the rupture, the unravelling—this final part turns toward the deeper question: What did this encounter ultimately do to the social, economic, and moral intercourse between those who were native to the land andContinue reading “THANKSGIVING AND THE AMERICAN CONSCIENCE: A THREE PART REFLECTION-PART III”