Tag Archives: India

13. Singularity

Colin Rezo, return­ing from a busi­ness trip in India on a plane, may or may not have an exis­ten­tial freak-out after con­sid­er­ing his sex-tourist antics, then may or may not be mocked by Ger­mans. First appeared in the Fall 2011 issue of Trans­fer Mag­a­zine (#102).

12.09.2011 – 8:07:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Like Real Life | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Day 34: Patna

Our stay in Patna began with being barred from two hotels for being for­eign­ers, then hav­ing the police called to our room by the third hotel for absolutely no rea­son. Luck­ily, the com­mand­ing offi­cer search­ing through our pass­ports while his col­leagues sat with their rifles ready also knew he’d been called for no rea­son, and …

04.05.2011 – 5:01:AM | By Matt Carney | Posted in India II | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Day 15: Varanasi

I’ve never had such a love-hate rela­tion­ship with any­where on planet Earth as with Varanasi. Maybe for­eign­ers should be barred from this city. I don’t know. On one hand, this is a cul­tur­ally amaz­ing place. It’s among of humanity’s most ancient cities, and it shows; lay­ers of alley­ways and build­ings in degrees of decay bunch up …

03.13.2011 – 10:03:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in India II | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Day 13: Khajuraho II

We were wrong to sec­ond guess the woman from the other day. She gen­uinely wanted our com­pany only, noth­ing more. We returned the next morn­ing where the woman, named Sayra, her eldest daugh­ter Anjum, and youngest Zeba were all work­ing on break­fast. The two girls worked in the kitchen, while Sayra sat on the floor in …

02.17.2011 – 9:08:AM | By Matt Carney | Posted in India II | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)