Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Mary Murphy
January 13, 2026
Our train was 30 minutes later getting in to Coimbatore. At various stages in what was to be a 5-hour journey, we had been an
Our train was 30 minutes later getting in to Coimbatore. At various stages in what was to be a 5-hour journey, we had been an
This was my fourth visit to Bengaluru (formerly known as Bangalore), and again, the city has changed. My last visit was 10 years ago, when
Sunday dawned. We decided to catch up with the world outside and stay put for the morning. After himself had his first-ever ayurvedic massage (he’s
We’d arranged with Deepak to pick us up at 9 am from our hotel to head up to the Chamundi Hills to the Chamundeshwari Temple where
The 5-hour train journey from Chennai to Mysuru (formerly Mysore) was pretty uneventful. We were travelling in executive class, a far cry from what I’d
From what I recall (it was in my pre-blogging days), the last time I was in Chennai was 2005, 20 years ago. It was a
I met my friend Kajal in Bangalore many moons ago where both of us studied with the late Dick McHugh SJ. I’ve been following her
The most famous story I know that has its origins in India is that of the blind men and the elephant. It’s a parable that
Way back in the early 1980s, when faced with the choice of moving to Dublin or making the 20-mile commute up and back each day,
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said
