A Sense of Wander

A Sense of Wander

When Places Change

Why we find it to so unsettling

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Eric Weiner
Nov 09, 2025
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A vendor selling books at a busy intersection in New Delhi

I just spent a week in New Delhi, India. It is an annual ritual, a pilgrimage of sorts, this return to my soulplace. I find it restorative—and unsettling. The Delhi I fell in love with in 1993 is not the same Delhi today. There are shopping malls and McDonald’s and traffic, so much traffic. Ther…

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