I had come home from the office and got the good news that my kids had done brilliantly in their school exams. Since we weren’t going to India for our holidays, we thought we’d do something special for them.

Horizons are too beautiful to be untrue. The mind seeks it out in the pinnacle of ecstasy when the earth meets the skies.

Mashhad in Iran is the place where every visitor or better pilgrim goes. It has been a magnet for millions from medival times.

Nothing can quite describe life in Iraq. I had an opportunity to be there in December and it was like travelling back some 100 to 150 years back.

Curators in the Baghdad museum are celebrating. The shelled, looted and barricaded national museum opened its doors six years after the invasion of Iraq.