I had reached Madras, and travels in the sub-Continent had so far been largely by bus and by boat. I was determined to change that, and lined myself up to take on one of the… 

The India I had read about in novels stretched well beyond its current borders. I learned of a country that was referenced to include places that were now in Pakistan and Bangladesh. On my first… 

Returning to Rawalpindi after a day of tedious administrative duties in Islamabad, I was planning a quiet night.  I had a 5am departure to Peshawar the following morning. I headed back to my bare room,… 

Raised in a parochial environment, where bomb sites, economic austerity, and disintegrating industries were omnipresent; low working-class aspiration prevailed on my happy childhood. The early 1960s were my primary school years, when dreams were nurtured.…