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blood dragon tree of diksam plateau
Middle East, Outside India, Yemen

The cave-dwelling Bollywood loving Bedouins of Diksam Plateau

Diksam Plateau was the reason why I visited the remote island of Socotra. It was home to the endemic blood […]

April 14, 2020
the market of hadibo
Middle East, Outside India, Yemen

Hadibo and the ugly side of urbanization of remote tropical paradise

“You will be staying at the Taj of Socotra”, beamed my affable guide to me. We were out of the […]

April 13, 2020
the diksam plateau of socotra island
Middle East, Outside India, Yemen

How I ended up on the Socotra island

I first came to know of the Socotra island when I was in school. A brilliant TV commercial featuring the […]

April 12, 2020
Diksam plateau in Socotra
Middle East, Outside India, Photo Essays, Travel Extras, Trip Photos, Yemen

Memories of Socotra, one of the remotest travel destinations in the world

“It is not down in any map, True places never are” – Herman Melville. This is completely applicable to Socotra […]

April 11, 2020
youth at the face of the yemen crisis
Middle East, Outside India, Photo Essays, Travel Extras, Trip Photos, Yemen

Yemen crisis and memories of Old Sanaa

The attention span of humans is very short and the memory is even shorter. It has the wonderful capability of […]

April 10, 2020
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