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Back to the Future on Triplicane High Road – Chennai, India
Back to the Future on Triplicane High Road
Chennai, India
There was yet another power cut, or “load shedding” as they like to call it in India. Consequently, the growl of generators filled the air, and the stench of diesel wafted upward. I was hanging over a balcony, looking out ove
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High Flying Hyderabad – Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
High Flying Hyderabad
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Situated in the eastern part of the country, Hyderabad is the capital of Andhra Pradesh. Also known as the cyber city, it has attracted multi-national corporations as no other city has done in the recent past, thanks to the lead taken by th
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All Aboard the Tamil Nadu Express: Next Stop, Insanity (or, Split Down the Middle) – Chennai, India
All Aboard the Tamil Nadu Express: Next Stop, Insanity (or, Split Down the Middle)
Chennai, India
It was a rock ‘n’ roll journey in India. Well, sort of; except there was no actual music playing, little travelling involved, and it could have taken place almost anywhere – it ju
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Time Travel on the Road to Nowhere – India
Time Travel on the Road to Nowhere
India
I lay on my bed reminiscing about 1960s northern England where I lived as a child. It must have been about midnight and I thought about terraced houses and smoke stack chimneys rising in the distance down by the docks, and rag and bone men crying, “
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Pancake Overload! – Chennai, India
Pancake Overload! – Chennai, India
Chennai, India
“Are you are telling me that travelling is a complete waste of time?” Jan was a wide-eyed backpacker from New Zealand who couldn’t quite believe what I was saying. He was “doing India” by journeying along the
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Asian Times – India
Asian Times
India
In 1970s Britain, when I was a teenager, there was a nightly news programme called News at Ten. It was a national institution with massive viewing figures, in a time before satellite and cable TV, and the information superhighway. Millions relied on that programme for their vi
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Thirteen Hours to Midnight – India
Thirteen Hours to Midnight
India
They say that cricket is the biggest thing in India and I can see why it is so big. Much of it involves waiting. It is a slow paced game; chess on grass. On almost every strip of waste ground, young boys play cricket. They wait – for the bowler to bowl; for the
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Turn On and Tune In – India
Turn On and Tune In
India
Recently, I contemplated doing a book on all of the western travellers I have met in India who loose their minds in their search for inner peace or “God”. They say that travel broadens the mind. May be. But where India is concerned, it may well warp it. I s
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light in Goa – Goa, India
Moonlight in Goa
Goa, India
Goa by moonlight conjures up all kinds of romantic notions – reflections of moonlight on the sea, sipping on a cold beer at some beachside café, and listening to the crash of waves as they roll onto the shore. Tree-fringed beaches and carefree times. Star fille
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Sachin Tendulkar, You\’re the Stuff of Dreams – India
Sachin Tendulkar, You’re the Stuff of Dreams
India
Goats and hens scattered to the sides of the road as we ploughed our way through the back lanes. Children played and women sat in doorways gossiping and passing the day; that was, until they glimpsed me sitting in the back of the auto-ric
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Dusty Daze in Triplicane – Chennai, India
Dusty Daze in Triplicane
Chennai, India
Jessica could have stepped out of a Botticelli, with her poise and beauty, but she hadn’t. All she had done was step off the madness that is Triplicane High Road and into the crippling ugliness of a third rate hospital. Jessica and the hospital in T
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Indian Festivals – India
Indian Festivals
India
India is a large, beautiful and bountiful country. It could be renamed Utopia, if only there were less number of festivals! Unfortunately, whilst Christians, like the Muslims and Buddhists believe in only one God, we Indians have a multitude of them. The Bengalis have apt
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Carpet Fitters, Coffee and Rum – Allahabad, India
Carpet Fitters, Coffee and Rum
Allahabad, India
I often get the feeling that when walking along a crowded street in India, it is all part of a gigantic film-set; I am part of it, but somehow I am not. As a traveller, I am just passing through and there is a temporary even dream-like nature to i
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Internet India – Tamil Nadu, India
Internet India
Tamil Nadu, India
I had just travelled along the Delhi to Jaipur road. It took an age to get out of the city. Delhi seemingly goes on forever. The bus fought its way through traffic jams, people, urban sprawl and more urban sprawl. As we passed the Indira Gandhi International Air
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Writers of the World Unite! – India
Writers of the World Unite!
India
It was a cold and dreary January and I was in a bookshop on a high street in an English town, flicking through the pages of a travel magazine. The front page had an inviting photograph of a red-sky sunset over Darwin, Australia. Splashed down the left-hand side
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Indian Dreaming – India
Indian Dreaming
India
20-10-04 – Midair Journal Entry: Zurich, Switzerland to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
It’s another moment of change in my life. I’m about to step out of the sheltered, insulate form of backpacking Eastern Europe to bravely risk life in the wild unknown wor
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Stare Crazy – Delhi, India
Stare Crazy
Delhi, India
Being a foreigner in India attracts a lot of stares. We get stared at a lot, particularly when in smaller provincial towns and cities, and I have never quite got used to being stared at all of the time. It is not just brief glances because I happen to stand out in a cro
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Natasha and the Juice Bar Owner – India
Natasha and the Juice Bar Owner
India
To a westerner, fed on a diet of European rationalism, with its tendency for planning, calculating, timescales and order, India may seem a very strange place. It has a different logic, which can be unfathomable to most westerners. But what about Indians? Th
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Fool in the Pink City – Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
The young western guy who goes to India seeking higher understanding of himself/mankind/god, only to discover worldliness and inexplicable suffering and confusion is an oft-repeated story. For the record I did not go to India expecting to find holiness. I went as a raw, naive, unimaginative,
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J.K. Rowling I Hate You! – India
J.K. Rowling I Hate You!
India
Prominent Italian born Indian politician Sonia Gandhi is reported to have once said something along the lines of: there is the right way of doing things, there is the wrong way of doing things, and then there is the Indian way of doing things…
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