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the roof at Wat Phra Singh

"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again -- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more. The beauty of this whole process was best described, perhaps, before people even took to frequent flying, by George Santayana in his lapidary essay, The Philosophy of Travel. We 'need sometimes,' the Harvard philosopher wrote, 'to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.'"
—Pico Iyer, Why We Travel, Salon, 2000

That pretty much sums it up for me. Time to plan an escape.

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    The Age of Kali
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    The Age of Kali is a time of change and strife. 19 essays explore India's dark side as the nation struggles to find its place in the 21st century.

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