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Fri, 15 May 2015 | By sidtravels | Views [167] | Scholarship Entry
This happened a long time back...at a time when I couldn't afford to buy plane tickets (I was still a student and learning design in school)! I was in Srinagar for a project to document a local craft and actually finished it a little before time...so ... Read more >
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Fri, 15 May 2015 | By ladydi_01 | Views [162]
The day was supposed to begin not long after light began streaming through the windows. I guess jet lag caught up with me or something because I fell back asleep until mom opened the door and asked "Do you still want Stefani to do you hair"? I shot straight ... Read more >
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Wed, 13 May 2015 | By jsmith2 | Views [149] | Scholarship Entry
After a particularly precarious auto-rickshaw ride from Tilak Nagar Metro to Delhi Cantonment station, circumventing some sort of causeway through alleys and spaces crammed with people and animals, I thought I was ready for my first train journey in India.... Read more >
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Tue, 12 May 2015 | By cheri | Views [225] | Scholarship Entry
It was just on dusk as we wandered over to the three-wheelers, all lined up perfectly in a row, despite their beaten-up appearance. The carefully painted pictures on their doors had faded, the streamers now limp and lifeless. The marigolds lining the ... Read more >
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Tue, 12 May 2015 | By wanderingsophie | Views [115] | Scholarship Entry
Your spirit is with you in all the world. Pay attention as you plant one foot in front of the other. Every step is a story. The cultural ground you walk on has it's place. As a wanderer The experience of that moment is the journey. When in it, I feel ... Read more >
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Tue, 12 May 2015 | By brendanquinn | Views [218] | Scholarship Entry
Our very first night, in the petite mountain village of Gulmarg, Kashmir, I tackled my friend Domenic into a glass table at the only bar in town. This heroic act of drunken violence followed the absolute chaos of a multi person rock-paper-scissors match ... Read more >
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Mon, 11 May 2015 | By nigza | Views [153] | Scholarship Entry
Wake up, we are almost here!! I heard a subtle voice calling me. Voice of the Monk! Andy, who I just met the day before. It was the first time I saw a monk wearing a short pant and a T-shirt. But he had his reasons! The bus was still moving. Passing through ... Read more >
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Mon, 11 May 2015 | By untamed-vagabond | Views [144] | Scholarship Entry
As I stride along, I spot a pretty bronze bracelet with glass and silver beads. My eyes gleam with fascination and admiration, once again. It is exceptional; I have not seen anything of that kind before, much like a lot of other riches spread round here.... Read more >
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Fri, 8 May 2015 | By rockywildman | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 8 May 2015 | By plainsweetjane | Views [162] | Scholarship Entry
I was enjoying a leisurely canoe ride with a local guide, Santosh, in the rice bowl of Kerala. Along Meenappally Lake rice shoots were going into muddy fields. East of the Pamba River, along a small waterway, we watched harvesters at work. On the edges, ... Read more >
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Fri, 8 May 2015 | By ellelogical | Views [227] | Scholarship Entry
In retrospect, it’s the geography lessons in school that fuelled my nomadic sensibilities. This was before I’d reckoned that my travel bug mutated to develop tentacles of its own. Soon I was drawing from my ‘tentacles’ to take me around India but the ... Read more >
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Thu, 7 May 2015 | By tuiyu3 | Views [137] | Scholarship Entry
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi has moved the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the Bombay high court order dismissing his plea for quashing a defamation case against him for allegedly blaming Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh for the assassination of Mahatma ... Read more >
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Wed, 6 May 2015 | By samita | Views [452] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry
When I was twenty, I went to Kolkata, India, with my dad to visit his family for the first time. India is a huge country, and it has everything from sweltering heat to ice and snow. There are the sweetest foods that the tongue can taste and the spiciest ... Read more >
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Tue, 5 May 2015 | By castawa_ycastie | Views [696]
We are from a place so deific; here, where the air is enriched with the sweetness rendered by Nature that has bounced off from the rolling hills onto the flowing rivers to us; the cycle thus so repeating in oneself. We are from a land of serendipity ... Read more >
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Mon, 4 May 2015 | By cocoboho | Views [158] | Scholarship Entry
Four years ago I embarked on a journey with some friends to India. Our 14-hour plane ride involved crunched legs, drooped eyes, and an excited curiosity. We landed in Mumbai at midnight, and to our surprise, the night lit up with lights, noises, and people.... Read more >
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