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Puja by the Ganges – Varanasi, India
Puja by the Ganges
Varanasi, India
Dusk settles slowly at Dasaswamedh Ghat drawing the last of the summer’s day heat; heat haze shimmers from the cement landing, distorting the view of the Ganges River. The water shimmers with golden hues, as if some unseen painter has brushed the very ti
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Calangute: Nightmare in Paradise – Goa, India
“Stirrrr it, there’s sumthing at the bottum” Siggi had just finished impersonating my accent very badly for what seemed like the 50th time that morning, then proceeded to light what might have been her 20th cigarette of the day. Then, through what seemed to be a permanent haze
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Cyberabad – Hyderabad, AP, India
Cyberabad
Hyderabad, AP, India
Hyderabad
Hyderabad is the capital of Andra Praadesh state, India. I was there for a cousin’s wedding. Actually, the wedding was just an excuse to spend a day exploring this wonderful city.
Chandrababu Naidu may not be the CM of Andhra Pradesh anymore but hi
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A Day’s Journey to Arabian Sea – Malpi, Karnataka, India
A Day’s Journey to Arabian Sea
Malpi, Karnataka, India
Team Playing in Kaup BeachBack in the resort the mood was one of exhilaration. Arrangements were made for a bon-fire, disco and a little bar. I was amazed about the energy of the team. For the next three hours, they danced – som
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Mcleod Ganj: Proof of Life – Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India
Mcleod Ganj: Proof of Life
Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India
Mcleod Ganj from the Cemetary We had walked quite a bit that day and to be honest, I was running out of steam and film rolls. The cab put us down by a handsome sum of Rs. 150 from the telescope place back to square one. Back at the
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Goa’ing The Distance – Goa, India
Goa’ing The Distance
Goa, India
The state of Goa in India is a place lauded by many and experienced by few. It is far from anywhere, especially other states and cities with India. Goa is the polar opposite of everything that is India. It is a relaxed paradise of sorts. It’s not a p
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Crisis on a Roof Top – Rajasthan, India
Crisis on a Roof Top
Rajasthan, India
Travel, it is said, expands the mind and broadens horizons. More accurately, it challenges the concept of personal hygiene and leaves your hair making rather grandiose statements about how much fun you are having in the twilight hours.
A couple of journeys
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Maddening: Delhi – Delhi, India
Maddening: Delhi
Delhi, India
If Goa is heaven in India, then Delhi is almost certainly hell. Delhi is maddening in all ways that a city can possibly be. Delhi will sharpen your wits and numb your senses. Delhi will come at you in full force from all directions at all times of the day and from
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A Personal Goodbye to Broadlands Lodge in Chennai – Chennai, India
A Personal Goodbye to Broadlands Lodge in Chennai
Chennai, India
I must have stayed in over 140 hotels and guesthouses throughout India since first coming here in 1995, from big-city cockroach infested pits to stylishly appointed Rajasthani lodges: the good, the bad and the downright ugly. Howe
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Auto-rickshaws, Hindu Temples and Motley Crue – New Delhi, India
Auto-rickshaws, Hindu Temples and Motley Crüe in India
Delhi, India
Getting There
My wife and I were offered the opportunity to travel with some friends to India. Of course, we jumped at the chance. Our friends were going to attend a wedding of a cousin. We figured we’d never again have the
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Heat Index – New Delhi, India
Heat Index
New Delhi, India
India is hot in the summer. Hot. So hot that you’re not actually sure your body is experiencing the amount of heat that is bearing down on you from a sky so hazy it looks snow white. And this is in the countryside, where the mammoth heat has room to stretch out, ki
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Indian Government Busses: a Must to Try – Delhi-Manali, India
Indian Government Busses: a Must to Try
Delhi-Manali, India
Snow-peak views and apple orchards of Manali are fourteen-bus-hours away from soaked in dust and fried by heat Delhi. How you will manage those fourteen hours does not really matter – Manali is worth it anyway. Yet, some reckon g
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Long Lost Winter – Anjuna, Goa, India
Long Lost Winter
Anjuna, Goa, India
Take me back because I need to be reminded of what I left behind. Take me back where? I don’t really know anymore: a time, a place, a memory? But just take me back…to a beach cloaked in darkness, with a winter moon shining and the silence broken o
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The Buses of Rajasthan – Pushkar to Ajmer, India, Asia
The Buses of Rajasthan- Pushkar to Ajmer, India
Pushkar, Rajasthan, India
The bus ride from Pushkar to Ajmer will become an amusing travel story, an example of my courage and sense of adventure in this crazy country. But it’s too soon. I still feel shaky thinking about that 10-hour bus ride f
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The Buses of Rajasthan – Pushkar to Ajmer, India
The bus ride from Pushkar to Ajmer will become an amusing travel story, an example of my courage and sense of adventure in this crazy country. But it’s too soon. I still feel shaky thinking about that 10-hour bus ride from hell.
Irit and I are scrambling to find a place to pee, stumbling
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Choose Your Own Adventure – Delhi, India
Chose Your Own Adventure
Delhi, India
“People come to India looking for two things,” the blood-shot, idle eyes said, “God or drugs.”
It only took a second more to conclude which one the burnt-out hippy came in search of, and with that came the reminder of the dire conseq
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Highest Road – Ladakh, India
Highest Road
Ladakh, India
View From Khardung La
With a flashlight in hand to light the way, I walked along Changspa Lane to the center of Leh situated at an altitude of 3505 meters with the world's highest airport set amidst the stark mountains of Ladakh, India's northernmost
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Insane About a Dog – India
Insane About a Dog
India
Chester looked straight ahead. Chester always looked straight ahead for he was an inanimate small dog who had been made in China. Despite the fact that he possessed a permanent unblinking expression and that to many he was merely an inanimate stuffed toy dog, Chester ha
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American Pilgrim – Jammu and Kashmir, India
American Pilgrim
Vaishno Devi, Jammu and Kashmir, India
“Do you wanna go to Vaishno Devi?â€
“Sure,†I said.
“Wait. What’s Vaishno Devi?â€
And that’s how it started.
I moved to India three months ago to manage a small group of Indian developers for my company. Yes, that’s right,
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The Skyclad Jain Monks – India
The Skyclad Jain Monks
India
During our four-month trip in India this year, my husband and I stopped in Khajuraho to visit the Erotic Temples. While there, we heard of a small village, Kundalpur, where hundreds of Jain Monks gather in a two-day festival to celebrate fifty women becoming Jain mo
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