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Fri, 27 Mar 2009 | By margitpirsch | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 27 Mar 2009 | By qui001 | Views [636]
We arrived the night in Bickaner after a journey train of 8 hours. As usual when we descended from the train a crowd of tuc-tuc drivers asked us if we wanted a ride for our hotel, but our hotel was quite close to the train station so we walked for ... Read more >
Thu, 26 Mar 2009 | By qui001 | Photo Gallery
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Thu, 26 Mar 2009 | By jess_lee | Views [841]
Today is the opening day of the Kalyani Para music centre and the atmosphere around me is electric. Sweaty cameramen from Malayalam TV jostle for good vantage points while assembled villagers excitedly take their seats. Dedicated to the memory of ... Read more >
Thu, 26 Mar 2009 | By jess_lee | Views [993] | Comments [1]
There’s at least a dozen kids all sitting on the floor in front of me. They are wriggling about torn between curiosity and shyness. Furtive glances and whispers are exchanged before the boldest one is half pushed by the others to come over. ... Read more >
Thu, 26 Mar 2009 | By jess_lee | Views [744]
The picture is slowly taking shape: two massive entwined serpents which cover the courtyard. The little girl beside me looks out from heavily kohl-rimmed eyes, entranced by the strange colourfully swirling shapes emerging upon her courtyard. ... Read more >
Thu, 26 Mar 2009 | By jess_lee | Views [639]
The workmen walk along the road dressed in crisp blue shirts tucked into colourful lungis. I love the fact that here you see men proudly wearing sarongs of dazzling floral displays of fuchsia-pinks, aqua-blue and lemon. You never know what you’re ... Read more >
Wed, 25 Mar 2009 | By solbeam | Views [1330] | Comments [1]
For the third time in a year, I’m in India. I feel ourselves in
something of a desperate love affair; one, and just as often the other,
on her knees, begging the other to come back, just go, or not leave.
Four months ago, in a dizzy spell in Delhi, ... Read more >
Wed, 25 Mar 2009 | By qui001 | Views [549]
Jodhpur was under the sign of “rest”. We had a hotel with a nice roof top view of the old town and the fort. We wandered around the narrow street flanked by old typical 2 story buildings. This created lots of shad and made the streets cool as we were ... Read more >
Wed, 25 Mar 2009 | By margitpirsch | Views [833] | Comments [1]
Good to see these two..............haven't seen a "Westerner" for a while. Can't help it! Anyway this cute littel town was worth the long ride. Went straight to the market and got TONS of Saris - all used, but a $ each. Want to use them ... Read more >
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Wed, 25 Mar 2009 | By margitpirsch | Views [2346]
I have never, ever seen so much filth, poverty, public pooping/peeing, crippled people (including kids), people sleeping with kids and babies in the middle of a filthy side walk sprawled out with all their limbs (if they have any). Not just in one ... Read more >
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Wed, 25 Mar 2009 | By margitpirsch | Views [811]
.........most of you know, what a hard time I have with all the bodily noises Coby is producing night and day??!! Well, I have long stopped believing in coincidences and for whatever it is worth, I was/am - like never before in my entire life - exposed ... Read more >
Tue, 24 Mar 2009 | By qui001 | Views [1168]
The journey to Kumbalgarh was really nice, Rais stopped in few nice
places to take some pictures of camels, a cow powered irrigation system to
distribute water from a well etc. When we arrived at our destination, as usual,
we were surprised of the ... Read more >
Tue, 24 Mar 2009 | By jess_lee | Views [3781]
Gopalan Ettan is a potter. Just like his father and his grandfather before him he spends his days at his wheel shaping clay brought from the Nila’s banks into bowls and water jugs to sell. There are still plenty of potters along the banks of ... Read more >
Tue, 24 Mar 2009 | By jess_lee | Views [769]
Kerala is in the middle of a vast building boom and all that concrete needs sand. A lot of that sand is being sourced illegally from the Nila’s banks. I look out of my window here and see, not a peaceful river view, but a bunch of clunky construction ... Read more >
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