Travel
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Why Travelogues?
A short post on why the author reads travelogues, recommending Shueyb Gandapur’s “Coming Back”, an account of a Pakistani chartered accountant’s 2017 journey through India, and asking readers for suggestions.
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Religious books in Hotel rooms
Nachiketa recalls finding Bibles and Qurans in the rooms of Kenyan wildlife lodges, learns it is common in the United States, and wonders why scriptures are placed in hotels, contrasting…
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Browncast 72: Conversation with Salman Rashid
BrownCast episode 72: the hosts speak with Salman Rashid, an ex-army man turned travel writer with ten books, about Partition, Pakistan, history, Alexander the Great and whatever else comes up.…
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BP Podcast episode 48: Hitchhikers Guide to Hindustan
A BrownCast episode in which the host speaks to Rajat Ubhaykar about his epic journeys around India, with a note that a few inadvertent remarks by the host sparked a…
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Hitchhiking through India-
Introduces a podcast with Rajat Ubhaykar, who hitchhiked six months through India, and says it left the host feeling an urban Hindu hegemonic outlook obscures India’s profound pluralism.
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Brown Pundit tour of Pakistan
X.T.M, who has visited India about ten times, urges commenters to visit Pakistan, noting a friend who disparaged the country until a trip to interior Sindh changed his mind.
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Uber means Freedom in English, Tamizh, Sanskrit…
Quoting a writer’s memory of Washington’s zone-fare taxis, the poster recalls renting cars for one-way trips and a night stranded in the Columbia River Gorge, and weighs what Uber’s freedom…
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The most beautiful place on earth
Travelling to Kaghan Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the author describes the lakes, Kunhar river trout and the folk tale of Saiful Muluk, and recalls the 1831 Balakot battle between the…
