Archives for “New York”
- Aranyi (Pic via Carl Lee on Flickr) I don’t know if I’ve been attached to any particular city. I was never part of Bombay’s pulse – I always felt as though I led an existence parallel to it. I might wish to be buried on Vassar’s grounds in Poughkeepsie, if I wished to be [...]
Upon arriving in Finland, I braced myself for an impenetrable language, difficult food, and odd social customs, but I was also shocked by the physical city. I quickly learned that knowing where to look or how fast to walk aren’t universal conventions – these are habits that each city teaches us. The numbered grid system. [...]
A new day. A new adventure Some people thought I was insane to return to America when the economy was sinking, when I could easily get another teaching job in Asia, when I expressed such dislike over New York, and when I consistently praised the cheapness, the beauty, and the kind people of Asia. I [...]
For more reasons than one, I believe that my parents should have invested in a family airplane. It would have really saved them a lot of money that was spent on our travel and moving about. Born, bred and bought up in Hong Kong was perhaps the best experience of my life. I was born [...]
I love the first snow of the season…It’s like a deja vu of the first rains back home. The glitch though is, it doesn’t smell as divine as India’s wet earth. Last year was my first winter, after just four months, in New York. And, being from a tropical country like India and a humid [...]
I don’t necessarily feel displaced because I always chose to be where I was.But whenever I feel alone,I can’t help myself thinking what if I never left Japan & stay with my family all the time.Would I be happier? I don’t know.The only thing I know for sure is that I’m still enjoying this gypsy [...]
Only people from this place can understand why I find more beauty and possibility in the crumbling ruins of a once-bustling factory town than in the shiny skyscrapers of New York…or why I’d rather watch the beautiful crash of Lake Erie’s waves than take in the city’s endless entertainment. I once said I’d never come [...]
Sometimes when I’m driving on the I-95 in Philadelphia, I get a strange sense of being in Bombay and driving past the Queen’s necklace. And then – I realize, I’m not in Bombay.” — Jinal Shah, Bombay-Philadelphia-New York