Alibaug brings to me a picture of Arabian Nights, mainly Aladdin on his magic carpet drifting through the wind, above Alibaug’s rocky, sandy shores, and dense woods. Perhaps he did. The christening of this lazy town was done after a guy named Ali, a rich Bene Israelite, who owned many plantations of mango and coconut. […]

Hot summer days make all of us long for the beach. There’s this burning desire to let the cool water cleanse you of the perspiration dripping down your skin. A few feet away, the sea sparkled, glittered, and beckoned me. The beach at Kashid is soft, like a newborn’s tender skin, the kind where I […]