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2011- A MILESTONE YEAR – A PERSONAL REVIEW

Posted by Mark on Dec 28, 2011 in Blog | 4 comments

Ah, here we are at year end and a good time to look back on the year before moving ahead into the New Year. For me personally, it was one of those milestone years that don’t happen every year like this one. I quit my technology sales job I had been working at for seven years in April. At the same time, my novel Overland was published in India. Putting two and two together was easy: go to India...

Pictures from India & Nepal

Posted by Mark on Nov 19, 2011 in Blog | 3 comments

Here are a few choice snaps taken on my India and Nepal trip this year!

RETURN FROM INDIA- THREE MONTHS LATER

Posted by Mark on Nov 12, 2011 in Blog | 1 comment

I realized the other day that I have now been back home for a longer period of time than the actual amount of time I spent in India and Nepal from June to August. This kind of surprised me for I can’t really account for a whole lot during this time post India. Yet I did finish writing the memoir of that trip. And now the screenplay to Overland is in the works, with some serious interest to...

LAST PARAGRAPH IN THE KASHMIR CHAPTER IN MY UPCOMING MEMOIR OF INDIA & NEPAL

Posted by Mark on Sep 16, 2011 in Blog | 73 comments

When I went back to the Srinagar airport and the tightest security checks I’ve ever been a part of, I had to linger outside the terminal before being allowed in for my gate to board the plane to Mumbai. An airport policeman approached me and asked me where I was from. When I told him, he checked his passenger logs, looked up to me and said, “You’re the American that we thought was taken...

RESTAURANT DIPLOMACY IN KATHMANDU

Posted by Mark on Aug 9, 2011 in Blog | 57 comments

In my quest to shake my horrible sinus infection, I still had to eat. The one thing that hadn’t deminished was my apetitite and God forbid I’d miss a meal in restaurant rich Kathmandu. So, I did go out for meals here and there, even though most of the time I stayed in my room resting. I’d look out the window much during my recuperation and kept looking at the sign...

LED ZEPPELIN NIGHT IN KATHMANDU

Posted by Mark on Aug 4, 2011 in Blog | 6 comments

To say things have changed in Kathmandu since my last visit is the understatement of my entire trip. Of course I expected things to have changed since 1986. What is the same anywhere? But such a complete growth expansion makeover? OMG! I knew Kathmandu well, too. Having spent a couple weeks here, a couple weeks there…back then, and served with a good memory of it, well, I thought I’d spot the...