From a lightning storm in Calcutta to heroin addicts in Tehran, from a dead boy by a roadside in the Nepalese Himalaya to New York disappearing in a mist, Dastgah maps a one-year journey across the planet. Private reflections, comic anecdotes, poetry, dreams and the radical spirit of new journalism are all called upon in this ambitious travel story collection. Together they weave through questions of identity and love on the road, building into a refined diary that walks the line between reporti