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		<title>The Keralan in Keran</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thommen Jose]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[And the rise of border tourism in India Two nations. Two warring nations. Between the nations, flowed a river. ‘We call it Kishanganga, while for them it’s the Neelam,’ Fazan said. ‘But as you can see there is no difference between the waters,’ he giggled, sending flat pebbles skimming across the frothy top. He whistled [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Merkato, into Africa’s largest open-air market</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thommen Jose]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 13:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Teju Cole’s ‘Every day is for the thief’ is among my favourite books on Africa – a hark back to my own growing up days in Nigeria. A memorable quote from the book goes: One goes to the market to participate in the world. As with all things that concern the world, being in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Coffee and connections. In Kodagu.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thommen Jose]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On a recent trip to the Kodagu/erstwhile Coorg region, my quest for good coffee opened up some interesting people, conversations, and stories. A lot can happen over coffee! Kannada for coffee There was no signage – at least none that I could read. It was the gas cylinder that made me stop – surely somebody [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thar’s how we do it</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thommen Jose]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2025 06:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is plenty about off-roading that you can apply to other parts of life, including regular roads – maybe another post. Now, the 101. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dubai – With Determination</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thommen Jose]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 22:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Imagine you are a family of five members and one of you has a disability. You want to go on a trip but your plans could be foiled because of the special needs of that family member. Cancelling will be a heartbreak, but carrying on with the trip without that member will be a bigger [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wings of dream</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thommen Jose]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Natasha Mehl is the youngest pilot in Zambia today. She looks it too – wide eyed, inquisitive frown, warm smile and braces. At a recent aviation summit in Zambia, we bonded over the Concorde – the most beautiful thing in the sky ever built! I showed her the one and only photograph of the Concorde [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lusaka to Livingstone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2025 18:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There are two views from a moving car – the far and the near. While the first is barely moving, the second is a swishing blur. Between the knolls in slow motion and the swarming swards is you. Belted into a metal capsule, hurtling forward. Over soporific savannahs, just-vanished mirages, through blinking shades of patulous [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A walk in Windhoek</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2024 21:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You lose count on two accounts: one, when the number exceeds your counting ability and two, when you don’t count and instead just look forward to the next. I started visiting Namibia about two years ago on work and every time I am here, I am decided on what I have to do the next [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Herero, kosher</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thommen Jose]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2024 06:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Acts of assertion At airports: Bole International, Addis Ababa One would think it a gold-plated oil pipe if it was found anywhere else but on the passenger’s wrist. Even then the dimensions were adequate to traffic a newborn. Definitely more of what it was made of in little pellets or pewter format inside. The stuff [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Walking through rainbows: Victoria Falls</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2024 17:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Those who still say David Livingstone discovered Victoria Falls are counting on the slightly tongue-twisty name ‘Mosi-oa-Tunya’ given by the local Kololo tribe who lived there forever. It means ‘smoke that thunders’ – how straight-from-the-heart-beautiful! But tribe members and other locals who still reside near the park, working as rangers and guides, bear no grudge, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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