Archive for 2010

Eatopia In Vietnam

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Pulkit Vasudha I had planned to arrive in Ho Chi Minh City in fading daylight, so I could guiltlessly gawk at the horrific reminders of the Vietnam War. I had expected a city struggling with the lingering pain of war, its people maimed and crippled by Agent Orange, and the economy buckling under imposed communist rule. [...]

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A holiday among cashew shrubs

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Pulkit Vasudha A rustic fishermen’s hamlet speckled with cashew shrubs, palm trees fringing the horizon, brown sands  dotted with seagulls, and a blue sea yet undiscovered by weekend beach seekers. “Near Chennai? Impossible,” I said, when told about it. The adventure tour company assured me it  wasn’t a marketing gimmick. It wasn’t. Katupalli Islands, 40 [...]

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