Robert Smythe's Archive
Pray for Rain
In India, writes Robert Smythe, waiting for monsoon season is an exercise in hope and fear: “Now in the middle of Indian summer again, as monsoon approaches from the south, I am doing the same as everyone else. I am praying for rain.”
Topics: India
Better than Varanasi
In northern India, a meal made over a dunghill fire turns a detour into an arrival: “The smell of manure and raw meat mixed in the air. I felt sick, and not only to my stomach. This was the opposite of Varanasi.”
Topics: India
