WATERMELON CHRONICLES | TRAVEL | CHINA
Today is a perfect day to write about watermelons
(a tale of cosmopolitanism and traveling the world)
If today wouldn’t be a perfect day to write about watermelons, then which day would be better?
For sure, this is watermelon story season. I am so much looking forward to reading more of your watermelon stories on Medium too.
Here is a watermelon story that I will never forget. In the early years of the present century, when we were all recovering from the Y2K craze and the idea that nothing much had happened with the millennial change was still sinking in, I engaged on an intensive travel spree in the Southwest and the West of China.
The land of the Tokharians
I had developed a special interest in the area since my student years, when upon graduation and getting my Masters in Sanskrit and Buddhist Studies, I prolonged my stay at university for another two years deciphering Buddhist manuscripts and reading Tokharian languages with Dr. Prof. Walter Couvreur — who was one of the most erudite human beings…
