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‘Is it Safe’ – Going to the Dentist in India or Dental Healthcare Tourism
"Is it Safe" – Going to the Dentist in India or Dental Healthcare Tourism India Many people from the West now indulge in "healthcare tourism" ? visiting India for healthcare in order to avoid waiting lists or costly services back home. I thought that I would get in
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A Different God – Uttaranchal/Himalayan North India/India
A Different God
Uttaranchal/Himalaya North India/India
Have you seen God, met Him?
Perhaps, neither have I. “Perhaps”, because I don’t know if the one I met (or rather, could not meet) qualifies as being a God.
Up in the hills of Uttaranchal, Uttarkashi, on the way to Har-ki-D
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Kolkata Awakes – Kolkata, India
Kolkata Awakes
Kolkata, India
Buddhadev Bhattacharji, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, has large visions for Kolkata. He has accepted the fact that for the state to prosper, business and industry must return and the combined efforts of all concerned will certainly bring back the old glory of
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Varanasi Bhang – Varanasi, India
Varanasi Bhang
Varanasi, India
Sllluuuurrpppp…chunky yoghurt slid over my tongue – a slime residue with bits of pulp and leaves. Thick gulp – then down the throat. I licked my lips, rubbed my tongue against the roof of my mouth, pressed it against my teeth and sucked.
I scanne
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Give me South India Anytime – South India
Give me South India Anytime
South India
Wet, windy, cold and damp. Apart from a few days in July or August, this just about sums up British weather. So you can imagine how South India may appear to someone like me. It’s hot all year round and is pure exotica with its coconut trees, banana
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How to Help the Asia Tsunami Victims
Asia Tsunami: How you can help. Donate or Volunteer.
Donate
Action Against Hunger
Providing emergency assistance.
CARE
Initiating assessment of the emergency needs of victims.
Mercy Corps
Assisting families affected by the earthquake.
American Jewish World Service
Sending humanitarian a
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Bustin’ Bangalore – Banglore, India
Bustin’ Bangalore
Bangalore, India
The best memories of one’s life are from early days – like unblemished gems of our true individual personalities, shining on in the dim corridors of our clockwork-orange lives, they yet manage to tease that unknown hidden smile out from behin
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Going Nowhere Fast – India
Going Nowhere Fast
India
My two usual breakfast partners were glaring at each other across the table. It was simmering and I could feel it about to boil over. Every morning had become the same: endless arguments between them, demonstrating their personal animosities for one another through a kn
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Beyond the Outer Limits – India
Beyond the Outer Limits
India
I once travelled all over the world without ever leaving bed. It was a kind of recipe-for-the-bone-idle-couldn’t-be-bothered-to-travel traveller. And it didn’t cost me a penny (or rupee). It was, of course, a dream: a strange kind of dream, really.
I wa
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Strange Kind of Love Affair – India
Strange Kind of Love Affair
India
In 30 years time, as an old man on the streets of some English city, I will look back and recount my tale of unrequited love. I loved her but she could never love me back. I wanted her but could never truly get her. She was the only one. I was one of many. On a
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Blow Horn! – India
Blow Horn!
India
Horns are everywhere in India. The stick out on the heads of one of my favourite animals, the water buffalo, and of course are to be seen on most roads protruding from cows and bullocks. I love those horns, particularly when they are flamboyantly painted at festival time. It
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Past and Present Tense – McLeod Ganj, India
Past and Present Tense
McLeod Ganj, India
Sonam, one of thousands of refugee Tibetan monks who have escaped from Tibet“Okay. Let’s move on to conversation. Tell me what you did this morning before coming here. Try to use complete sentences that are in the past tense.”
He puts
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At Her Feet – Varanasi, India
At Her Feet: The Mother Teresa House for the Destitute
Varanasi, India
Entrance Sign to the Mother Teresa House of the DestituteI walk into the house thinking I have offered to volunteer my time and hands, but what I quickly learn is that it is my humility and touch that outstretched arms reach
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Over the Seas and Far Away: I Wish You Were Here – India
Over the Seas and Far Away: I Wish You Were Here
India
You are here. I know that you are. I can feel your presence. I can touch you. I can smell you. You haunt this place. You is woven into the fabric of this building. I can still recall your voice, your laughter, your smile. I call your name.
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The Foolproof Train Station Exit Strategy – India
The Foolproof Train Station Exit Strategy
India
Rickshaw-wallahsThe train whistle blasts, announcing our impending arrival in Varanasi. It is nearly midnight and I know exactly what awaits me outside the station: a bloodthirsty battalion of rickshaw-wallahs, outnumbering potential fares at leas
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The India Habitat Centre – Delhi’s Peerless Oasis – Delhi, India
The India Habitat Centre – Delhi’s Peerless Oasis
Delhi, India
It looks like a cluster of any aging North American state university concrete constructs, overflowing with greenery, housing within its confines and around its interlinked plazas and courtyards multiple gallery spaces: d
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Bludgeoned and Beaten By…Old Delhi In The Rain – Delhi, India
Bludgeoned and Beaten By…Old Delhi In The Rain
Delhi, India
Old Delhi! A neighborhood packed to truly anarchic levels with fun, zest, scent, stink, spirit, and color. Any stay in Delhi would be incomplete without a visit here. This is, I swear to you, my firm belief. It is not, however, b
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The Lodi Gardens – Like Your City’s Big Park, But With Tombs – Delhi, India
The Lodi Gardens – Like Your City’s Big Park, But With Tombs!
Delhi, India
Even a cursory glance at the Lodi Gardens immediately makes clear the benefits of having long national histories when it comes to designing big city parks. Old tombs and mosques, quaintly a-crumble, are just
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The Road to Nowhere – Bidar, North Karnataka, India
The Road to Nowhere…
Bidar, North Karnataka, India
Another weekend is around the corner and I’m thinking of a place to go to. This feeling of restlessness envelopes me weekend after weekend – an all-consuming desire to move out of the trappings of a mundane city existence out
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The Journey’s End in India – Chennai, India
The Journey’s End in India
Chennai, India
Many foreign tourists who visit Chennai do not stay long. The crowds, traffic and the India-style chaos that typifies the subcontinent overwhelm, and more than a few try to take the first train out. For them, Chennai is a mere dead end journey. Th
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