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Incarceration in America

It is one of the great scandals of American life. Mass incarceration is a fundamental fact in America today, on…

13 years ago

Gun Control in America

Excerpts from an article in the December, 2012 Atlantic Magazine by Jeffrey Goldberg titled THE CASE FOR MORE GUNS (AND…

13 years ago

The Truth About Health Care in the USA

(Excerpted from Time March 4, 2013 - Bitter Pill - How Outrageous pricing and egregious profits are destroying our health…

13 years ago

SRI LANKA – Hill Country, Ancient Cities, East, South, Colombo

SRI LANKA March 13 - April 2, 2013. HILL COUNTRY From Delhi, I flew via Chennai to Colombo. Within 20…

13 years ago

SRI LANKA – Facts

HISTORY The problem here is that there are two completely different versions, depending on if you are Sinhalese or Tamil,…

13 years ago

Summary of My Experience in India

INDIA November 17, 2012 - March 13, 2013. (more…)

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Practical Travel Advice in India

VISAS In my experience India has the most difficult visa application problems of any country (I'm sure there are worse,…

13 years ago

INDIA – Amritsar, McLeod Ganj, Manali, Rishikesh, Agra, Khajuraho, Delhi

It is now the end of February and I have booked my flight to Sri Lanka for March 13. As…

13 years ago

INDIA – Gujarat, Diu, Rajasthan

GUJARAT STATE Gurjarat (pop 61 million), originally settled 4000 years ago, went through the usual Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and British…

13 years ago

INDIA – Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashta, Mumbai

KERALA State Kerala State (pop. 35 million) is on the south-west corner of India. It is one of the more…

13 years ago