Preh Khan (prekshA!)
Mr Kushal made plans for me. How much time I might spend at a site was my option. The drivers of three-wheelers parked their vehicles...
Village lunch
The eating place is an open air stall about two hundred foot long and thirty foott wide covered with a tent-like roof supported by poles....
Palace Temple
Archaeology is a science to study old objects in order to determine history. Most archaeology has been dealing with human skeletons and...
Dinner walk in Siem Reap
I had been thinking about Dr. Darith. A bright studentt, he grew up in Cambodia and came to France for higher studies. After a PhD he...
Angkor Wat
Mornings come early in the tropics. Because of the uniformity of day and night, the earth-bound creatures follow a sunlight-oriented...
Vegetarian Lunch and visit to Angkor National Museum
Angkor Wat was much less wooded than the other sites I had visited. I was unprepared for the enormity of the place. My decision of...
Studying inscriptions
Writing like music is an art. It is a process of recording our speech for possible future use. It is believed to have developed through...
Inscriptions, script, alphabet
The similarity of the Khmer alphabet to the Oriya alphabet fascinated me. The Oriya alphabet has not been easy to be classified because...
Departure from Cambodia, return to India
I was up early and checked through my belongings. I took a shower and consumed some of the remaining fruits. I prepared coffee. Dr....
Mumbai
It is a particular nostalgic feeling to get up on a bed in the country of one's origin. I could be biased, but India and her people make...
