I'm currently hitchhikig in Southeast Asia where it's of course always hot. I'm getting a rash around my ankles that I've had in the past but never looked into. In Australia I guess we would call something like this "heat rash", though I was never prone to such things when I was younger so I'm n...

I've just learned of a local people here in Malacca (Melaka), Malaysia called the Chitties (Chetty in Malay). They're also referred to as "Indian Peranakans". They are descendants of Tamil men and local women who intermarried hundreds of years ago. There is a Chitty neighbourhood and I passed it...