Articles by Karuwaki
The Letter That Outlasted the War!
(what survives when the guns fall silent) Twelve minutes. That is how long it took the USS Indianapolis to sink on July 30, 1945, days after she delivered the components of the bomb that would fall o…
The Heart That Came Back Softer!
I did not go to Kamakhya asking for anything. Not powers, not visions, not an altered state. Only grace. That is what I had told myself before I climbed Nilachal Hill — that whatever came, I wo…
My Second Home!
I arrived in Cochin in 2021 carrying the wrong map. Everyone hands you the same one before you go south — backwaters, God's Own Country, a postcard with a houseboat on it — and I took it …
The Mountain We Go to Worship!
Rasuwa has been torn apart.The route pilgrims take toward Kailash Mansarovar was hit by a flash flood. Roads gone. Bridges gone. Settlements buried under mud. The mountains, which usually seem to st…
Baklava: An Empire You Can Eat!
Cut it on the diagonal and you get diamonds. Cut it straight and you get history — thirty, forty sheets of dough thinner than a rumour, stacked and drowned in syrup until the knife needs rinsin…
The Quiet Sicily: What the Arancino Knows!
Geography made Sicily a doorway before it made it a home. The largest island in the Mediterranean, it sits close enough to touch both Italy and Africa, and everyone passing between the two has stoppe…