Michiel Baas

The writer is author of Muscular India: Masculinity, Mobility & the New Middle Class

The writer is author of Muscular India: Masculinity, Mobility & the New Middle Class

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Stories by the author

• AI doesn't dream of revolution: ‘Marxist AI’ says less about machine consciousness than about human labour grievances it’s fed

  
  20 May 2026 11:47 PM IST
• When Nato had to be called in to escape from a museum in Naples

  
  16 May 2026 10:26 PM IST
• Exposed to Kazakhstan climate change: With killer cold & soaring spheres, Astana thrives on mood swings ’n’ lofty aims

  
  25 Apr 2026 11:35 PM IST
• What does one eat in Kyrgyzstan? Korea, Japan come to the rescue

  
  29 Mar 2026 12:05 AM IST
• Tajikistan: A country in a hurry, making up for lost time

  
  28 Feb 2026 11:14 PM IST
• Turkmenistan: From marble excess to fiery desert, the country's surreal, utterly over the top

  
  27 Dec 2025 11:00 PM IST
• Europe's smallest countries are caught in a time warp, and that's their biggest charm

  
  06 Dec 2025 10:11 PM IST
• All along the three Guianas, where Calypso meets Mahabharat under starburst skies

  
  01 Nov 2025 11:00 PM IST
• You must be delulu if you thought you could get your hands on Labubus with ease

  
  27 Sep 2025 11:01 PM IST
• Travel is fun, if you have the stomach for it

  
  30 Aug 2025 11:00 PM IST
• Travel's not always about Insta-worthy places

  
  03 Aug 2025 12:09 AM IST
• A raggedy ferry ride into forgotten, dark history

  
  21 Jun 2025 11:00 PM IST
• Colombo's pub quiz ritual: From Barefoot Cafe to Ministry of Crab

  
  05 Apr 2025 11:00 PM IST
• Skip that resort holiday promising a ‘unique’ experience (it isn’t) and set off to Tuvalu or Kamadhoo before it gets too late

  
  15 Mar 2025 11:01 PM IST
• Wildlife in the city that never sleeps: From ducks to white horses - New York's beastly tales

  
  15 Feb 2025 09:20 PM IST
• Macondo: The fictional town that lives on in real places like Aracataca, Antigua, and Malgudi

  
  11 Jan 2025 09:33 PM IST
• View: Don't care for Christmas, but oh, for its X factor!

  
  21 Dec 2024 11:01 PM IST
• Are you a tourist or traveller?

  
  07 Dec 2024 11:00 PM IST
• Belonging is such a slippery notion

  
  09 Nov 2024 09:31 PM IST
• Getting far from the madding tourist crowd

  
  05 Oct 2024 08:40 PM IST
• Flying, walking, watching: Track the anthropologist's (carbon) footprint

  
  14 Sep 2024 09:47 PM IST
• Catch up with south Pacific rat-catchers

  
  03 Aug 2024 11:00 PM IST
• Things can be quite tame in the great wildlife

  
  06 Jul 2024 09:38 PM IST
• When you're stuck in a far-flung cauldron

  
  01 Jun 2024 09:47 PM IST
• View: Fine dining isn't just about fine dining, you pay 'so much' for much more than food

  
  18 May 2024 11:00 PM IST
• Never underestimate the kindness of strangers

  
  16 Mar 2024 10:02 PM IST
• Paris of the east (kala pani version)

  
  10 Feb 2024 11:00 PM IST
• Sick of flights in India? Try German trains!

  
  20 Jan 2024 11:11 PM IST
• Slaying the nostalgia beast in Tokyo

  
  23 Dec 2023 10:30 PM IST
• It's hot to travel to blisteringly cold spots

  
  5 mins read18 Nov 2023
• To go Baalbek-packing in 'another' Lebanon

  
  02 Sep 2023 11:00 PM IST
• To an old friend on the promenade

  
  17 Jun 2023 09:46 PM IST
• Should we fear AI? Not really

  
  7 mins read30 May 2023
• Jaffna: Sri Lanka’s northernmost city may still remind you of civil war, but think Dutch forts and ‘prison tourism’ today

  
  13 May 2023 09:21 PM IST
• No more qualithe time to spend in Puducherry

  
  25 Mar 2023 09:50 PM IST
• Dear Bangalore, where old pop-rock songs come to die/ live on forever

  
  11 Mar 2023 11:00 PM IST