Not Travel Writing: Vultures, Fever & Writer's Block

But why bother with diagnoses at all, if a diagnosis is but a restatement of the problem? –Maggie Nelson, Bluets I have been in India for a week and a half researching vultures, and I’ve barely written a word. Last week in Mumbai, trying to recover from some respiratory bug that is clinging like scale to my throat and lungs, I stared at the brick walls of my room, and listened to the barks and yells and mumbles from the street against a background of near-constant honking ho…