Haunted houses in India don’t have just one ghost. It could be a whole family.

My mom told me a couple of months ago in her beautiful broken English that ”(she thought) it was time to “go home” Home is… more »

Obama’s prize gives me hope, in a sense. It means you can be awarded for BEING someone, rather that DOING something. And that’s good news… more »

A perfect storm of state failure is now brewing there: disappearing oil and water reserves; a mob of migrants, flooding in from the failed state… more »

If the U.S. government enforced strict sanctions on text messages I’m fairly certain that the world as we know it would fall into complete chaos.… more »

By gearing generation upon generation towards national pride and defense in order to sustain themselves, the leaders of Israel may have doomed themselves to a… more »

A little girl digging in a trashcan for spaghetti. I couldn’t erase that image from my mind after a friend recently showed me a film… more »

Prior to the 2008 push of the youth vote, the general take on youth population was pretty dower. Young people have been stereotyped as not… more »

Dehradun, India—Went to mass this Easter morning. St Francis was so full of people, there was a large crowd outside that couldn’t fit within. The… more »

They call me a globetrotter, but to walk the world I must have healthy feet. As much as I love experimenting internationally, I think my… more »

In the past, I’ve said that China still has a (somewhat weakened) totalitarian government, but no longer a communist one. A couple of readers then… more »

The radio news reports make it sound like everyday is a new step to financial turmoil. It’s as though nothing else is going on in… more »

Last week, under the auspice of protecting Hindu culture, thugs from a local right wing Hindu outfit called Sri Rama Sene barged into Amnesia, a… more »

Tokyo, Japan Canon Camera’s headquarters can now be known for more than capturing your friend playing drunkin’ Wii boxing on New Years eve. Now, the… more »

It may be fairly naïve to say, but anything and everything seems better outside of the United States: the sights, the sounds and the food,… more »