New Orleans     Finally after a 40 plus hour schlep from almost 8000 miles away in the world, I found myself straggling home to New Orleans and the bounty of spring in the city.  I picked up a lucky break changing planes in Chicago and wildly ended up on the same flight with a bunch …

Dhaka        I’m at the point where one foot is still in the south Asian sub-continent and the other is already reaching out for home, but here are some more observations from this part of the world for what they might be worth.Fiscal year in India runs April 1 to March 31st.Bought “biscuits” at a …

Dhaka        None of these cities on my route the last ten days are small:  Bangalore (6.2M), Chennai (4.3M), and Kolkata (7.8M).  Yet, Dhaka with 6.7 M seems something very different moving from India to Bangladesh, as if I were rolling backward in time several decades.  At some level this is a surprise because one …