A wander through India’s Magnetic Fields Festival, an electronic music mecca in the Rajasthan desert.
Travel
Visionquests across India and a variety of the world’s other beaten/unbeaten paths.
The mythical ashram at the heart of ‘The White Album’ is still there in Rishikesh, if you can find it.
1. If you ask people in Chennai to generate paperwork confirming you work in Delhi, don’t be surprised if they send it to Hyderabad.
“Assorted refuse drifts by. A styrofoam block. A lightbulb. A hog-tied goat carcass. “
A fun little listicle I put together for AWOL, including the locale of the outback Australian pub where David Bowie shot his iconic Let’s Dance music video.
“That the country has recovered from Pol Pot and his miscreants from the Khmer Rouge slaughtering a quarter of the population between 1975-79 is achievement enough; that its people are so full of hope and humour seems nothing short of a miracle.”
I walked into a post office in Harlem to send some trinkets home to Australia. I emerged 75 minutes later after a close encounter with the ‘real’ America.
The seamier side of Delhi reared its ugly head when I walked the streets for Holi, India’s festival of colour.
The only regret of my 2013 Visionquest around the globe was losing my mobile phone at the Casablanca football derby, the most hectic sporting event I’ve ever attended.
A wild fly-in, fly-out weekender in Singapore courtesy of legendary superclub Zouk’s beach festival.