 "On the road to Mount Cook")
Last July, my wife who is a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University — and I am not afraid to say it — was idly browsing the internet when she came across a post that invited submissions of academic papers for a conference in Wellington, New Zealand. She asked me whether I wanted to come along. I demurred, saying we had been there in 2010. She said, “Oh, that was just Auckland, now it’s Wellington. We will also go to other places.” We argued a bit, and she won.
But I knew from a few previous such trips with her that while
