Less than 72 hours after landing in Dubai from the USA, I got on a plane again. I must have had a very good reason to do so, right? I did. My beloved agent and friend, Priya Doraswamy, is celebrating the 5th Anniversary of her literary agency, Lotus Lane Lit. She’d had a party in…
Tag: travel
Taco Bell in Sri Lanka
From Sri Lanka’s international airport to the Havelock Place Bungalows in Colombo, our cab driver pointed out what felt like every single landmark — the President’s home, Hercules’ Tailor shop, the Dutch hospital, the Portuguese fort, the Bristish architecture, the Hindu temples of the Tamil people, the Buddhist stupa of the Sinhalese people — on…
The Magic Carpet Ride
What we came to see: rugs, sea, food, art and architecture. What we left with: rugs (and a rug-seller friend named Gonzales), bloated bellies, and these glorious photos of Istanbul (not Constantinople).