Kai Friese

I write on current affairs

The picturesque combination of coral and sand makes the island nation a must-visit add luxurious resorts to that and you have a beautiful vacation

These finely crafted felt slippers from Mongolia make the perfect souvenir

The gentle manatee or the peixe-boi is an aquatic mammal that once thrived in the Amazon

When in the jungles of Arunachal Pradesh, trust a --dao-- to be your efficient companion than a fancy Swiss knife.

100 years or so of advertising, from comical sexism to the perpetual dilemma of volume and value - all in one book

The book is a compilation of bizarre lost and found maps and is meant for imaginative and imaginary geographies

This strange and rare burgundy/black lime has turned into a culinary ugly duckling recently

The unexplored valleys around the Lohit river - where eastern India ends and China's Yunnan province begins

A --cannibal fork-- from Fiji - apparently a replica of the ceremonial cutlery used by chiefs to spear the choicest morsels

'Blind traveller' Holman had travelled to every inhabited continent between 1819 and 1846

The book is an account of Delhi in the making and contains lavishly printed archival images