His thesis was stopped at the border. His future as a college student in America was on the line. But Komail gave border agents the slip with a little anatomy lesson.

Listen here.

Background music is Balkan's Joke by Jacques Pellarin. Check out Komail Aijazuddin's website. This story was created from outtakes of another story to air on Studio 360 in the coming months.

Labels: audio, college, desi

We're caught wearing shorts in tick-infested woods. But we had no idea we'd be hiking out there in the first place, or that we'd meet Marcus, aka Tom Bombadil, who lives in an old wooden house from 1870 and who loves to eat wild mushrooms.

Listen to us city boys follow him into darkness.


Music in this piece is Anitra's Dance by Edvard Grieg, and Tom Bombadil's Song by The Tolkien Ensemble.

Labels: animals, audio, rural