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Buddhist Tranquillity

8th February 2018

An ancient Stupa is possibly neither a mausoleum nor a temple. Those Stupas were mostly completely solid structures. They did not contain burial chambers nor did they contain caskets of treasure. They...

The Road to Varanasi

There is a highway of sorts which leads from Lucknow to Varanasi. It is about 300 km and so straight for the first half that the Romans would have been jealous. They promised us that it would not take...

Lucknow the hidden gem of India

5th February 2018

Part I - Lucknow by night

A very organised chaos

4th February 2018

Prabhat Singh is a fountain of knowledge and a scholar of Buddhist Iconography. I had to look up the word; a branch of art history which identifies, describes and interprets images. His information was...

I cannot remember her name

2nd February 2018

She can't be more than 12 or 13 years old and we can only imagine what her life must really be like and I am ashamed that I can't even remember her name because I bet she can remember mine.

Splitting Light and Algorithms

27th January 2018

It's perhaps not as exciting as splitting the atom but it is a whole lot easier and the results are very pretty. Pass a light through a prism or diffraction grating and the white light miraculously splits...

Percussive Sampling in Tenerife

15th January 2018

The Canary Islands is an archipelago and semi autonomous community of Spain comprising of seven islands located some 100 miles to the west of Morocco. Although visited by a string of visitors, including...

The Lupins of New Zealand

24th December 2017

Two people told me the story of an Englishwoman, who, while travelling through New Zealand, thought it a good idea to sprinkle lupin seeds over the countryside as she trecked through the South Island....