Time and Tourism: Gap Year Week 35

15 minutes in Bosnia, King’s Landing, and beyond.

The Truth About JLF: Gap Year Week 27

Everything they say about the Jaipur Literature Festival is true.

Roots: Gap Year Week 26

"After a week in the unfamiliarity of the Andamans, I was looking forward to the five days in Vizag. No one will take care of you like your grandparents do, my mother reminded me just before I arrived. Finally, I was reaching somewhere like home."

Andamans Again: Gap Year Week 25

If the last time in the Andamans was for the sea, this time was for the land, and its inhabitants.

Burning Bright: Gap Year Week 24

"Maybe if we clung tightly enough we'd carry the feeling of these arms supporting us even as we scattered."

To Calcutta and Beyond: Gap Year Week 23

A sudden, selfish urge rose within me to whitewash the world too. Wipe it clean of trash. Of buildings. Of people. Leaving only the things before myself. Before humanity.

Returns, Possibilities, and Fourth-Graders: Gap Year Week 21

Last week, I came back to Singapore after three weeks in Sri Lanka. It was a short return, admittedly—I am now elsewhere and continuing what’s now a firmly ingrained bad habit of avoiding any timeliness when writing blog posts. Short returns, though, will now be the norm, especially as I spend longer and longer periods…

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Diving Deep: Gap Year Week 19

"This is why I’m taking a gap year—to come to things, new or old, and dive in headfirst without needing anything from it. For these firsts that let me see the world in fresh ways, over and over, from beneath the surface."