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Crossroads of Inner Asia - Part I
This travel diary is my introduction to Daily Kos. I usually participate in European Tribune blog and very rarely here. I'm from Russian Far East but usually spend my time in South Asia. Today I want...
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Crossroads of Inner Asia - Part II
So Frodo style I climbed Tanglang La pass (5,325 m) in distressed mood probably caused by sheer altitude and growing headache. What I could expect in Ladakh, I wondered looking at cragged gloomy peaks...
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Crossroads of Inner Asia - Part III
This part deals with purpose of my journey through high-altitude terrain of Ladakh towards the vale of Kashmir and further down into India. When one is exposing his personal diaries he (or she) would...
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Three days amidst ruins
I received requests to continue with my travel diaries but it will take time, maybe some months;-). Now I can share with you three days I spent in lovely Hampi (South India) last year. For all who love...
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Ahmadinejad may take a short break
I have been keeping silence here as the pace of events in and around Indian subcontinent became so fast so there was no time for reflections and analysis. Nepal's Maoists are quitting Parliament, in...
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Desperate flight of Taslima Nasreen
Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, 45, is on the run from Islamic fundamentalists, who issued fatwas against her in 1994. She was in Kolkata, flied to Jaipur, then now she is hiding in...
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Benazir martyred, Pakistan in flames
Former Pakistan's PM Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007) has been assasinated yesterday evening on outskirts of Rawalpindi, the city to the south of Islamabad, famous for numerous security and army institutions...
View ArticleCode da India 2007
Yesterday I read good article about what bothered Indians in 2007 and decided to share it with you offering mini-dictionary (imperfect but still) to explain proliferated cryptic words incomprehensible...
View ArticleAgain on the road
Warning: This is personal apolitical travel diary and has nothing in common with upcoming elections in US; This is I hope the first part of photodiary covering my current journey around Indian...
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Cry for Tibet
I took some time from my busy schedule to write a little about Tibet as Dharamsala where I live witnessed growing unrest among exile Tibetan community.
View ArticleSpellbound by Dalai Lama
Despite stern warning from Indian foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee to Dalai lama not to indulge in political activities on Indian soil Delhi's elite was spellbound by this Buddhist monk when he...
View ArticleMy journeys in India
This is collection of pictures taken from 2003 to 2008 in different parts of Indian subcontinent.
View ArticleIs change possible in international politics after US elections later this year?
So presidency of George Bush Junior is nearing its end. Some say it was catastrophic. Americans may breathe easier and hope for better administration and better management of international affairs by...
View ArticleSuggestions for article about Tibet
I am writer (history and guidebooks), living in self-imposed ;) exile in India, recently I was asked by diplomatic magazine to write an article about Tibetan question.
View ArticleThe bear is back with a bang
This is my take on situation on war between Russia and Georgia over the latter's separatist regions and its consequences for antagonists and Russia-Western relations.
View ArticleThe Third Is Out Or Life After Musharraf
Few thoughts on developments in Pakistan. So president Musharraf finally buckled under government’s pressure and resigned in televised swan song which ended with appropriate farewell "Bye-Bye...
View ArticlePutin raises the stakes in new Cold War
Announcement by Dmitry Medvedev, spokesman of all-powerful Russian PM Vladimir Putin, of recognition of independence of Georgian rebel regions, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, dramatically raised the...
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What is wrong with India
If you shiver in chilly weather of winter in Northern hemisphere you might envy me - I am still in tropical India. I did not write anything substantial on blogs recently though I was tempted to ink a...
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Fabulous Thailand
I know how not to start a travel story - about view through plane's window. Yet, I want to start telling so about my trip into Nepal and Thailand. When I embarked on Royal Nepal Airlines' Boeing 737 in...
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Thailand on the brink
of dictatorship. Very few countries in the world can rival with Thailand where political crisis became rather normal than extraordinary event. So what's new happening in Bangkok these days? Army on...
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