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They had a lot to smile about. Their pizza and apple pie were first rate, top notch and just like Mama used to bake. Crunchy thin crusts, fresh toppings, olive oil, caramely honey sweet chunky apple pie in flaky pastry, all within a hundred yards of a burning ghat. After meeting these magnificent pie-men I […]
Read More The Smiling Pie-Men of Benares meet the simple Sigh-Man of Sydney.Singapore is a great work of art, once a swamp but now a glittering paradisical homage to progress and tradition, a buzzing blend of cultures.
Read More Singapore FarewellCan erstwhile PM and full time nerd K Rudd be following us ? Is he in deep cover throughout SE Asia on some covert mission for the UN trying to scrape those last few votes together ? Certainly at one stage he seemed to be taking on the physical shape of Gareth-Gareth Evans, Australia’s other […]
Read More Rudd-anoiaThe opium trade wasn’t just about “evil” Britishers imposing their terrible and implacable will upon child like and helpless asians. Some Indians were forced to grow opium, others made enormous profits from it. There is nothing childlike about Asian people, particularly the Chinese, or for that matter the Indians. They are, and always have been, […]
Read More Opium, not of, but for the peopleSome wonderful images sent to us from our cousin Rono in Kolkata.
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