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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By lostwanderer | Views [510] | Scholarship Entry
At the young age of 23, when most people had sorted out how their lives should be, I was directionless. Unable to bear the torture at home, I decided to move out. With only `1500($25) in my pocket, I packed my bags and arrived at the Bangalore Railway ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By pixelvoyages | Views [177] | Scholarship Entry
“Feels like the lost city of Atlantis”, says my daughter. She is right. A large part of Hampi in today’s Karnataka state was lost centuries ago, buried under silt from floods in the Tungabhadra River, till excavations began. Ruins of palaces, exquisitely ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By jpoon | Views [141] | Scholarship Entry
The owner looked at us as we stare intensively at the locked gate above the narrow staircase. This was it, our answer to all the relentless observations of the Gold-Dust Sweepers. We had spent over a week following these Mumbaikars sweeping and scouring ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By emilyjay | Views [1026] | Scholarship Entry
I stood transfixed. The drums and brass instruments were deafening. Lights blazed from the stage. My nostrils twitched from sandalwood and masala incense. I was oblivious to the many eyes fixed on me, the pale skinned visitor. The round bellies of women ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By parsek | Views [138] | Scholarship Entry
I can tell you for sure: we live in a magic world. At times we forget about this. But our dreams can throw us to the other side of the Earth to open our eyes and to show all the splendor of life. Exactly the same thing happened to me. Two years ago I ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By surabhiwashishth | Views [134] | Scholarship Entry
Starting my daily ritual, plugging in my iPod, I began to run. Recalling a line I had read, I smile. Today, I could relate to it full-well- 'This Is Not Here'. The road unwinding before me, the sun rising in the distance, my eyes fill with tears. I couldn’t ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By aloksdiaries | Views [136] | Scholarship Entry
It was my maiden trip to Southern India which was also my first solo traveling experience. As my train paced out of the New Delhi railway station, I was leaving behind the despair and anguish caused by an unstable job scenario which had finally yielded ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By shivangi | Views [642] | Comments [36] | Scholarship Entry
It hit me hard. The thought pushed my senses over the cliff, while my feet still struggled to find a grip. My hands grabbed the arms of my rucksack that threatened to topple under the weight of the sleeping bag tied to its side. Chitkul, the last village ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By penseve | Views [166] | Scholarship Entry
In the hustle and bustle of a metropolitan city, Huffing and puffing, with hurry always in its kitty. Located in the Indian subcontinent is Bombay, a bay A city that sleeps neither at night nor in the day. Amidst all those blinding lights and continuous ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By jonty | Views [129] | Scholarship Entry
Was the precious, stagnant well water the cause of my irreversible bowel damage? Or was it the unlimited curries, fresh camel milk, sand washed dishes, and the utter soaplessness of it all? No, I thought, it was probably the rum. I was in the Rajasthan ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By vanyapandey | Views [164] | Scholarship Entry
On the road, the smell of the air changes, languages are a babel -soothingly foreign at times, then strangely jarring.Women have green eyes that tell stories of the desert in one land, and in the next, blue eyed women smile with icy disdain. That's why ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By travelhacker | Views [85] | Scholarship Entry
What life teaches you in 25 years, Sitanadi condenses and crash teaches the same in eight hours. Gyan in the greens? Just one night at the Sitanadi forest guest house in Chattisgarh enlightens you on a zillion things. That tandoori naans, when left to ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By roadsandbikes | Views [194] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
It started with the planned day, we were ready with our bags packed. As soon we thought to leave, it started raining. For once it made us to call the plan off as heavy rain stroke the ground with all its thunder and lightning. Even we the young blood ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By sassy0811 | Views [603] | Scholarship Entry
“In the blue of the sky, in the green of the forest, whose is the hand that has painted the glow? He is lost in the heart. In the cavern of nature – Sri Aurobindo” The ability of nature to always walk towards balancing the elements makes our place in ... Read more >
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Wed, 27 May 2015 | By indiathroughmyeyes | Views [147] | Scholarship Entry
I’ve always thought that the best stories of travels are when you go outside and experience it in the cheap way. I mean, when you are facing them you think you are in a place called hell. Yes, while you are living them, you might not be so happy, but ... Read more >
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