Destination: India

Traveling Deep: See the Life of a Waste-picker through My Eyes

Fri, 17 Jul 2015 | By hitesh | Views [598]

Start your day at as early as four in the morning or as late as eleven at night, change to clothes that are dirty and torn, work for twelve hours straight, carry a huge plastic bag on your shoulder, keep your eyes on the ground, pick all the salable ... Read more >

Tags: backpacking, dumping ground, mumbai, nomad, rag picker, responsible, travel, traveling deep, wanderlust, waste

Photos: Mysuru Watering Hole

Thu, 9 Jul 2015 | By carlsbad_sven | Photo Gallery

The Seafarer

Sun, 14 Jun 2015 | By mrsgouldssunbird | Views [198]

Tags: birds, ocean, swamps

Photos: Profile Pictures

Fri, 29 May 2015 | By lostwanderer | Photo Gallery

And I will be back

Thu, 28 May 2015 | By nath | Views [490] | Scholarship Entry

My driver dropped me to the airport and I had no idea what happened next. All if I recollect hard I saw myself walking at the ticket counter, the lady smiling at me, I pointed her to some flight flashed on a huge giant TV screen and the next thing which ... Read more >

Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship

Agrasen's Baoli

Thu, 28 May 2015 | By mirageamidsttraffic | Views [210] | Scholarship Entry

A Mirage amidst Traffic I happened to visit one of the most crowded and busiest cities in India and managed to find the most peaceful place in that very city. When I told my folks that the poet in me finally found that one place where I could sit and ... Read more >

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Paris : Not Just Romance, But More

Thu, 28 May 2015 | By livingtotravel | Views [169] | Scholarship Entry

Now this is going to be one of ‘not –clichéd’ accounts of one of the most clichéd place in history.Maybe these keywords – ‘fashion’,‘food’, ‘romance’ and ‘revolution’ would make this more obvious.So after years and years of begging and brawling with my ... Read more >

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where honesty is what they offer

Thu, 28 May 2015 | By nagmakhan | Views [247] | Scholarship Entry

. No matter whether I get it or not but I have to try. I spared time from my busy schedule to start on for this journey whose destiny I was highly unsure of. I started in the much familiar Delhi Metro carrying all the required documents with me, boarded-... Read more >

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I left my heart in sand and disco

Thu, 28 May 2015 | By ktwils | Views [190] | Scholarship Entry

When people hear you are going to India, their reactions are not enthusiastic. They scrunch their nose and say “That’s amazing but I’d never go there.” It wasn’t until I witnessed the sardine packed, deafeningly loud, urine-filled streets that I really ... Read more >

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Lotus Temple

Thu, 28 May 2015 | By arshdeep | Views [161] | Scholarship Entry

Lotus temple! How much? I asked.30 rupees. Frustrated from work place I wanted to escape..42 degree and Indian summers - both intolerable but less torturous than news channel office Soon I was there. Walking on green grass maintained by recycled water, ... Read more >

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Kerala - Varkala beach beauty parlours and massage

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By haus_child | Views [927] | Scholarship Entry

Vesna Hauschild Indian beauty After three days spent voluntarily imprisoned at Shivananda joga ashram, I donate my last night payment and head off to discover some other tresures that Kerala has to offer. I might have stayed day or two longer if they ... Read more >

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Kangra Fort- home of oldest royals?

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By spreet1 | Views [209] | Scholarship Entry

I traveled quite often to make a documentary on Tibetan film and music industry to Dharamsala , India, which is headquarters to Tibetan government in exile and home to many Tibetans. I traveled by bus with an overnight journey from New Delhi to Dharamsala.... Read more >

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Jaipur Diaries

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By ankita | Views [142] | Scholarship Entry

Jaipur happened to me last year. I went to the Jaipur Literature Festival 2014 and was totally blown with the charm of the city. I think if India would be a color palette Jaipur is definitely going to be the brightest color. The pink city would color ... Read more >

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that never lost which doesn't exist

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By a8e | Views [156]

lost though didn't have it seen though it is invisible heard though it couldn't vibrate felt though it doesn't exist lost though didn't have it   -that exist, can see it, can hear it, can feel it, 'though it doesn't'-

Tags: unknown

Photos: a8e

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By a8e | Photo Gallery