Desde hace más de 2000 años, los viajeros han caminado, montado, orado, negociados, invadido, escapado, luchado y muerto a lo largo de las 1.500 millas de la Grand Trunk Road, que se extiende desde Kolkata a Kabul. Kolkata, India. Este tramo de la humanidad que se extiende del noroeste de Kolkata, la ciudad de la cultura y la alegría, a Kabul, la ciudad de los conflictos, se ha estado moviendo comerciantes, compradores, conquistadores, los refugiados, profetas, nómadas y peregrinos a través de lo que es hoy India, Pakistán y Afganistán.

Rajasthan, India For months there is no rain, and then there is too much. Half the world’s people survive at the whim of the monsoon. Bihar, India I was eleven years old when I saw a photo essay on the monsoon in India in Life Magazine by Brian Brake, the New Zealand-born Magnum photographer. His work…

At one magical instant the page of a book - that string of confused, alien ciphers - shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; At that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irerevocably, a reader. - Alberto Manguel Hong Kong To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable…

“A landscape might be denuded, a human settlement abandoned or lost, but always, just beneath the ground lies history of preposterous grandeur. . . They are everywhere, these individuals of undaunted humankind, irrepressibly optimistic and proud.” - The Carpet Wars, Christopher Kremmer Kabul Herat Kabul Panjshir Valley Yet even at their most turbulent, the Afghans have tended…