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Ire for Aiyar

A Belgian Management Executive's love affair with Mughal Emperor, Akbar

Who's Afraid of Cola Colonialism?

What we bring with us when we leave

On Travel

Indonesia's Islamic rain shamans

The story of the zero

Cohen

The confessions of an atheist

When I revert please come from the backside only.

Of surprises: Vikram Seth, The Tang Dynasty and Picasso's pointillism

China: The America of Asia

Tagore, Japan and the Stray Birds of Summer

Naples: Calcutta with Baroque

A poetic interlude

The Australian Weighing Machine maven of Calcutta

My mother: the celebrity

Forgetting History

Dirty secrets of the writing life

Tangled Tongues:

Being Indian in English

Miscellanea

Why I'd rather be a Japanese woman than a Japanese man

Are Indonesian madrassas allies in the fight against Islamic radicalisation?

Wild tigers and chatting with your neighbours

In Defence of Cultural Appropriation

Indo-Japan pachydermic diplomacy

"Fairly" Awful: Growing up dark-skinned in India

Contemplating the Culture Wars at the Alhambra

Zen and the art of toilet maintenance

The era of the Cultural Revolution Mango

The CCP and Orienting

Sea slugs and Jain diets

The Spanish lunch: late, lavish and lingering

New book alert (yippee)

Chinese Whiskers

What's with the hot water in China?

Dong Yue Temple in Beijing

Why is Belgium in the Guinness Book of World Records?

The wound is the place where the light enters you

“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”

The Pleasures of Incompetence

Being Master Oogway

Why Japanese is my Waterloo

"Where are you from?"

How to spot an Expat

Future Nostalgia

Europe's Muslims

A handy guide for the cartographically confounded:

The Crane In Us

Good, Better, Best

‘What’s in a name?” or Becoming Maria Jose

Video clip

Touch and go around the world

Talking about India to the World

Luxurious lavatories, faeces ninjas, and a nation’s buttocks:

The Big Shit With Your Name On It

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