Destination: India
The Critic: “12,000 Miles in the Nick of Time”
by Jim Benning | 08.09.03 | 12:11 AM ET
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by Michael Yessis | 12.02.02 | 3:46 PM ET
NASA’s Landsat 7 satellite travels in a sun-synchronous, polar orbit around Earth, collecting and transmitting up to 532 images of the planet’s various regions every day. Of the thousands of images produced, many have been deemed by the American space agency to have so much “aesthetic appeal” that they’re now part of an exhibit called The Landsat: Earth as Art. Only a science organization would use the phrase “aesthetic appeal” to describe these images. Try unique, mesmerizing, spectacular. Have a look at India’s Ganges River Delta, Namibia’s Namib Desert or Alaska’s Malaspina Glacier and see if you agree.
The Old Woman Under the Tree
by Maria Möller | 06.18.02 | 12:38 AM ET
Photo by Maria Möller. The Critics: The Carpet Wars
by Jim Benning | 06.01.02 | 1:05 AM ET
In “The Carpet Wars,” Australian writer Christopher Kremmer travels a route through Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, India and other countries to investigate the region’s carpet trade. Morag Fraser of The Age raves,”[It’s] a source of vivid, unexpected pleasure—sharp as the air in the Afghan mountains.” Washington Post reviewer Tracy Lee Simmons is a bit more subdued with her praise: “This book, in its sobriety, puts a human and—despite the random, ritualistic violence—oddly sympathetic face on a part of the world that history, ancient and modern, has brought home to all of us.” Simmons also reviews Tony Perrottet’s “Route 66 A.D.” She notes that it’s “a splendid trip with two gutsy companions, and, by the end, the reader needs a shower as much as they do.”
Cereal Traveler
by Michael Yessis | 04.01.02 | 7:41 PM ET
We at World Hum love to travel, and we like all sorts of cereal, so we send out a hearty “Bravo!” to the resourceful and intrepid Lori Mayfield. After a bout of forgetfulness, she was left ticketless just weeks before a planned trip to India. Mayfield could have shelled out $4,500 for last minute airfare. Instead, she discovered that Kellogg’s was offering 100 frequent flyer miles with proof of purchase of certain cereals. Off to the market she went.
Field-Testing the Simputer in India
by Michael Yessis | 04.01.02 | 7:37 PM ET
Lincoln Kaye recently traveled to India to test the Simputer, a powerful, low-cost, palm-top that is intended as India’s home-grown answer to the “digital divide” in the country’s poorest and remotest villagers. Kaye wrote about his experiences bringing state-of-the-art technology to the Central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, a tableau of mud-hut villages and forested hills, in a diary for Slate.
“Let’s Have a Butcher’s”
by Michael Yessis | 01.19.02 | 1:50 AM ET
The International Herald Tribune’s Roger Collis explores the differences between British and American English, as well as Australian, Canadian and Indian usage.
The Razor’s Edge
by Leigh Webber | 10.09.01 | 12:57 AM ET
Photo by Leigh Webber. All along the Ganges, India's holiest river, pilgrims offer their hair to the gods. Leigh Webber joins them and contemplates her (former) blondness.
Nightstand Reading
by Jim Benning | 06.05.01 | 12:01 AM ET
As a 22-year-old traveler in Afghanistan, Brad Newsham wondered what it might be like, one day when he was rich, to invite a stranger back to America for the trip of a lifetime. Newsham never became wealthy by American standards, but decades later, he decided to find out anyway. In Take Me With You, Newsham hits the road in search of the perfect candidate, passing through the Philippines, India, Tanzania and other developing countries, encountering a host of memorable characters. This isn’t your typical went-there, did-that travel book. Newsham’s account is evocative and heartfelt, infused with a generous spirit capable of inspiring even the most jaded traveler. “I felt I’d moved a notch or two up the scale of involvement—from observer to participant,” Newsham writes. “Around any corner I might bump into someone whose life, and my own too, would be forever changed by our meeting….Possibility itself sat like an imp on my shoulder, whispering, ‘This could be the one.’”
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