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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 | By priyaggarwal | Views [139] | Scholarship Entry
Badrinath is a place of pilgrimage which every Hindu is expected to visit atleast once in his lifetime. Being an agnostic I was reluctant to go there four years back. It'll only be after three days that I'd find out that I didn't want to go back home.... Read more >
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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 | By summeronrepeat | Views [321] | Scholarship Entry
Upon landing in Delhi, I found myself choking on the intensity of life that rises up from its streets; every pore and orifice on my body suffocating on the mixture of smog and dirt that perpetually hangs in the air. As I traveled alone through India, ... Read more >
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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 | By unplannedtraveller | Views [130] | Scholarship Entry
We moved out of Jaipur eatery and back to our car, with our driver keen to get moving and avoid driving after nightfall. The air was thick with heat and the smells of the busy street. A dust cloud chased a passing truck, colourfully and proudly decorated ... Read more >
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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 | By kayo-kai | Views [634] | Scholarship Entry
As I stepped out from Rajdhani Express, I still felt like I was being rocked in a cradle after the long twenty hours train journey from New Delhi to Mumbai. The humid air clung to my body. I felt the sticky sweat of the crowd against my arm as they brushed ... Read more >
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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 | By paulpiorun | Views [1138] | Video
So, after a taxi, 2 trains and a rickshaw we arrived back in Goa! This time we opted to visit Arambol (north Goa). Due to our tight itinery we knew we only had 2 nights here which was a shame as we really liked the place. We found some nice ... Read more >
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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 | By paulpiorun | Photo Gallery
Last bit of beach life (for a while)
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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 | By travelpilz | Views [551] | Comments [2] | Scholarship Entry
“Australia, you rolling chapati,” Shashi says and hands me an apron. Under her nimble fingers a ball of dough swiftly flattens into a perfect disc. I roll and roll the dough into lumpy ovals. Next to me, England is pounding ginger and garlic into a fragrant ... Read more >
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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 | By christinalynn | Views [1288] | Scholarship Entry
The electricity died mid-movie. We sat in the dark awhile and somewhere along the line Nazir began talking about Kashmir, his beautiful and troubled home. He talked about politics and infiltration. He told vivid stories of people appearing at the houseboat ... Read more >
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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 | By steve_and_emma | Views [566]
We left Chandipur early due to the unfriendly and unaccommodating 8am check-out time. In actual fact those adjectives nicely sum up the people working in the Asha Nivas guesthouse too. We proceeded to spend the entire day catching rickety, ... Read more >
Wed, 17 Apr 2013 | By unraveltravel | Views [174] | Scholarship Entry
I watched my driver angle his head out the window of the white sedan and negotiate a price, in his native Tamil, with a tour guide in Mamallapuram, India. Intricately clad figures in striking, interactive poses carved within the stone monuments were aesthetically ... Read more >
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Wed, 17 Apr 2013 | By apurva | Views [234] | Scholarship Entry
Your parents have moved to a place where it’s always summer, even during winter. Three days after you go there you find yourself sipping Irani chai at a sidewalk café. Everything seemed unsettling- the warm sunset and the taste of tea, the sound of unfamiliar ... Read more >
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Tue, 16 Apr 2013 | By steven | Views [246] | Scholarship Entry
The train journey back to Delhi from Agra was bound to be disappointing: hot, crowded and dusty and having spent the morning in the Taj Mahal a far more prosaic destination awaited us. We had the luxury of 'superior' carriages (whose air conditioning ... Read more >
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Tue, 16 Apr 2013 | By steve_and_emma | Photo Gallery
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Tue, 16 Apr 2013 | By steve_and_emma | Views [574]
The 10.55am train from Puri to Balasore that we’d initially been told was sold out (but we eventually managed to buy some tickets) was in fact virtually empty. So we headed back up the tracks on a train that was only running 30mins late by ... Read more >
Tue, 16 Apr 2013 | By quizzical-dramatic | Views [194] | Scholarship Entry
When the sun-kissed shores of the coastal gem of Goa beckons, there are few who can resist her call. A hopeless victim, I made my way among the throng of devotees who came to bathe in her bounty. We ate, drank and made merry while the sun bronzed my skin ... Read more >
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