'09 Issue 04

Barossa Valley, South Australia’s famous wine district, beckons Verve with its gastronomical pleasures, landscapes and the chance to make his own wine
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The complete Balinese experience includes rice paddies on mountains, volcanic home of the gods and sun-kissed beaches. Aman resorts creates a lifestyle out of intimate experiences with their three exquisite properties in Bali. Verve discovers that these resorts go above and beyond making you feel right at home
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The reclusive writer Vikram Seth goes From Heaven Lake down memory lane. While at the University of Nanjing, young Seth, armed with a rare travel card, began a hitchhiking trip through the remote parts of China all the way to Lhasa, traversing difficult climatic zones and eating glutinous broth with pork fat floating in it. Verve finds the writer fondly nostalgic
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The founders of Lonely Planet Publications, Maureen and Tony Wheeler talk to Verve about starting an empire, living like nomads, their experiences in India and often not being recognised
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Posing in a BMW, two hot new directors, Dibakar Banerjee and Kunaal Roy Kapur talk about the wheels, ideas and and cinematic visions that drive their worlds
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Anoushka Shankar has several pet names, a big laugh that she tries unsuccessfully to tame and two bouquets of flowers that have arrived suddenly at her door. And the young virtuoso sitar player has the world at her fingertips, discovers Verve
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