I love road trips, unplanned preferably. Although travelling on the fly has become infinitely easier with the advent of those travel apps that allow comparison of prices, parking and flummeries. Ho…

I don’t often read the agony pages or advice columns but a newspaper clipping I’d kept for years in a file surprisingly called ‘newspaper clips’ caught my eye the other day, while I assiduously loo…

INTERVIEWED BY LESLIE S. LOWE A nomadic life has seen Anglo-Australian Apple Gidley live in twelve countries as diverse as Equatorial Guinea and the Netherlands, the experiences and cultures of which ...

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Welcome to the round up of posts you might have missed this week on Smorgasbord. I hope you have enjoyed your week so far… it has certainly thrown up one or two surprises for us. One being th…

Ashoke Ganguli, in Jhumpa Lahiri’s debut novel, The Namesake, says ‘That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.’ He is responding to Mr. Ghosh, an elderly man, who i…

Have you noticed how much more sensible women and girls are about shoes these days? So much so that I wonder if chiropodists and podiatrists are going out of business, due to bunions and hammertoes…