Geneva Diaries #64*

Kadambari, Kashmir, Hamlet, Haider On Sat, Jan 31, 2015, Roger Stevenson wrote: Dear Purnima, That’s great that you are going to do another trip to California via Geneva, but your choice of dates is terrible as far as getting together in the Bay Area. We are going to Paris in March and will be thereContinue reading “Geneva Diaries #64*”

Geneva Diaries #63*

Randomness, Yoko Ono, Chess Sat, Feb 28, 2015, 8:25 PM Dear Purnima, Please excuse my tardiness in getting back to you about your trip to the States. I’ve been trying to figure out a way to stop in SFO on our way back from France, but it doesn’t look like it will be possible.  WeContinue reading “Geneva Diaries #63*”

Geneva Diaries #62*

Burnes and The Great Game, Goa, Gauguin, Dalrymple and Afghanistan 12/2/14 Dear Roger, I’m finally back in Delhi after all my adventures. Goa was glorious, I love weather, the semi rural atmosphere, the palm trees of course and the balmy beaches, like Gauguin I’m afraid I’m headed for a tropical dreamland. I am seriously thinkingContinue reading “Geneva Diaries #62*”

Geneva Diaries #60*

Cartier-Bresson, The Lunchbox,  Greek Philosophers, English Adventurers and Awesome GF’s! On Thu, Mar 20, 2014, Roger wrote:Dear Purnima, And I can’t believe it either.  It has been a week and a half since we had our little stroll through the Latin Quarter. I hope you had a good flight home and that you didn’t haveContinue reading “Geneva Diaries #60*”

Geneva Diaries #59*

Privacy, Cyberspace, Human Error, T&C, Scrapping, Morality in Virtual Space Time On Monday, September 9, 2013, Roger wrote: Dear Purnima, Are you still transfixed with pins to a board, like a beautiful butterfly specimen in a natural history museum?  That is somehow an image that I can’t quite reconcile with my still-vivid memories of FrenchContinue reading “Geneva Diaries #59*”

Geneva Diaries #57*

Tiger Cave, Chimeras, Merchant of Venice, Blood, Biometrics, Technology, Genetics The Tiger Cave above from Mahabalipuram, India is meant to depict “yeli” a cross between a lion and a tiger but I see a chimera, a cross of multifold tusked and horned beasts, the perfect setting for our grand theatre!  5/27/12 Dear Purnima,  It’s beenContinue reading “Geneva Diaries #57*”

Geneva Diaries #56*

Vernacular Bible – Language for the People, Dussehra Ramayana, Emojis – Multimedia, Le Loi Pour Les Nuls  10/21/12 Purr-Gate-(s)Tory Contined… Dear Roger, How wonderful to get two emails from you back to back! So, you have not forgotten me, that feels so good…even though you may have forgotten my birthday. But your fabulously vivid emails reContinue reading “Geneva Diaries #56*”

Geneva Diaries #54*

Mei Guo- Health Care – Singapore Art Museum 28/8/12 Paradise Continued… Dear Roger, No news from you and I still remain cloistered in my darkened cave waiting for this long summer to pass. Occasionally, some kind soul throws a weekend section of the IHT over on to my balcony and I reconnect with the goingsContinue reading “Geneva Diaries #54*”

GENEVA DIARIES #53*

Legacy of Persia,  South to Samarkand, French and British Authors, Engadine and Eden-Paradise 7/2/12 Dear Roger, As I continue to hallucinate in this incredible fifty degree heatwave, I find myself revisiting the dreamscapes of Switzerland. Could these green rolling hills, dotted with wildflowers, crystal blue lakes inhabit the same earth as the heat and dust weContinue reading “GENEVA DIARIES #53*”

Geneva Diaries #52*

Lingua Franca, Persia, Houris and The Immigrants Tale 6/24/12 Dear Roger, Its super to get email from you! Especially with you describing your bunker like dwellings, with no electricity, running water, and refrigerator (now That I thought was almost attached to every American life form) in the East Bay, while I, the recipient, all theContinue reading “Geneva Diaries #52*”