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I love Goa…

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004

Cheesy cheap T-shirts, bags, caps all echo this sentiment of “I Love Goa” everywhere on this paradise land. Just a statement but so true, very true for me at least. Can’t say more of what I feel for this place. As always seeing Goa from the air took my breath away. I really don’t understand the love you can have for one place over the other. But then loving Goa was never hard. I spent some of my best years here as a teenager, even though those are the toughest times for one. Goa is in my heart and will always be my first home.

I did not spend a good 10 days in Goa, which were not enough to reminisce, nor did I get a fill of the land, the ocean, the people and food. I can’t but help thinking, what am I doing away from Goa when I know this is home for me but then so if San Francisco. A woman torn. At least it’s not two men! Everytime I come here it’s like coming home and getting a hug from my mom. Safe, secure and understanding love one that need not be vocalized. I do love Goa. I think am repeating the words to convince my self again and again that I need to do something to be able to spend more time here. This place grounds me. Maybe one of these days I will be back but not yet. Hope someday.

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Shaking Hands..With A Monk

Thursday, October 14th, 2004

You meet so many different kinds of people while traveling and it just so happened that I bumped into a very resourceful ones. The Swedish couple who were documentary filmmakers with an interview of the Karmapa under their belt. Then I bumped into Tishani, a half Gujju half welsh free lance writer who lives and works from madras. What a beautiful girl! A dancer’s eyes with honest expressions. Turns out she is a dancer without any formal training. Beauty that radiates. I asked her for her autograph just in case she turns out to be this very famous Tamil actress that she resembles. Anyway, she looked like had plenty of connections and I was happy to tag along while she went on meeting some of them as I really was not in a mood for touristy things but something else. To look deeper and closer into the Tibetan community in Dharmsala.

At a local bookstore she happened to ask the owners name and exclaimed “ah you are the man am looking for”. Turns out he is the local rebel who another author friend of hers knows from ages. He is a renegade as he is one of the few who disagrees with His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama on his policy with China. The Dalai Lama since 1988 wants Independent rule within China, where as there are other who feel that they should ask for complete independence. I really wonder if this will be a possibility in our lifetime. Will Tibet ever see the light of self-rule? Sad plight as a generations are still living without a country. Neither home in India nor in Tibet.

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In the Land of Lama’s…

Sunday, October 10th, 2004
Its been a while since I have written...well did not have much to say. All I did the past few weeks was just eat, sleep, read and watch the idiot box. Well, actually I did make a small trip down ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Upside Down….

Saturday, September 11th, 2004
One of things I have been very conscious of this trip is to listen to my first instincts and also to not plan every move I make. Thus, when my aunt (my mom's brother's wife) asked me to come and ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Coming Home…

Thursday, September 2nd, 2004
Landing in Bombay..excuse me Mumbai has always made me a bit apprehensive. Originally I was supposed to land in Delhi but then I changed my mind and thought, why not stick to the original plan and make Bombay my disembarkation ... [Continue reading this entry]

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