Volume II · Seeds of Change
Journeys I
Notebooks from the road — between Kashmir and Kerala, between strangers and selves.
Journeys I is a traveller's notebook, attentive to the small rituals of arrival: the first cup of tea in an unfamiliar town, the slope of a foreign alphabet, the kindness of a stranger pointing the way.
Companion audio and photographs live in the Archive — scan a QR code in the book to find them.
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Selected articles from this volume
LIFE PERSPECTIVE
What Travel Keeps
A reframe on journeys, souvenirs, and the parts of ourselves we meet away from home.
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Related archive content
Travel Notebook
Srinagar. 1998
The shikara cut a slow line through morning mist. The boatman hummed a song his mother had taught him.
Pondicherry. 2003
Mustard-yellow walls, a bell from the French church, the sea quietly insisting on itself.
Hampi. 2007
Boulders the size of houses, balanced as if by a child's careful hand. Time, here, has a different grammar.
Photo Gallery
Plate 1. Dal Lake at dawn, paired with the field recording in the companion library.
Plate 2. Temple stones and road notes from Hampi.
Plate 3. A seaside street in Pondicherry, annotated in the travel notebook.
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QR companion content
Throughout Journeys I, small QR codes invite you off the page — into photographs, recordings, and extended notes that didn't quite fit in print.
AUDIO
Shikara at Dawn
Field recording from Dal Lake, used in Journeys I.
VIDEO
Hampi Walk
A slow walk among the boulders at golden hour.
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Journeys I is available in print and through the booksellers below.
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Reader responses
"A travel notebook that notices people before landmarks."
— Early reader
"The journeys feel intimate, textured, and alive with memory."
— Book club note
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