Sarcouncil Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies

Abstract: Before beginning on the enterprise of recording this travel memoir, let me declare that this is a piece of writing like no other, that I am getting published. It includes two distinct sections, the first, concerning Dubai, a shoppers paradise, and the second being about a place in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States, visited purely out of my love for the imaginative world of books. The exceptional quality of the memoirs is that the first one was written in 1999 and the second in the year 2001, just a little prior to the devastation of the twin towers in New York, which also, incidentally, I did have the fortune to see, standing in all their splendid glory. The writing and the publication have a huge gap of more than two long decades between them. In those days, my career in academia had not taken off and I used to frequently write as a freelancer for various newspapers. Readers may notice references to the same in these write-ups. So I present the memoirs with much warm nostalgia and hope that reading the same would be a unique learning experience too.