Dehradun, April 12 -- A man with his beast of burden

Around the World with the Most Travelled Indian

As we all know, the Arabian Peninsula is part of the Arabian tectonic plate (hence a subcontinent) and includes present day nations of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Yemen, Jordan and the smaller countries of Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain.

On 8th April 2026 a two-week ceasefire was announced between US and Iran and with that, in some small portion, peace returned to the Arabian Peninsula which was being bombarded last month. And all this for really no fault of these nations that are prosperous and thriving and want anything but a war.

However, they do find themselves within a generally volatile region of West Asia and have the warring Iran and I...