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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By teesing | Views [123] | Scholarship Entry
My short brown hair only added to the fact that I clearly did not fit in. My jeans and casual t-shirt stood out among the salwar-kurtas that the women around me had worn and adorned with what is locally called the 'dupatta' - a cloth worn around the neck ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By petrichor | Views [116] | Scholarship Entry
How could I forget that night? It was exactly ten days since my grandfather had passed away. I was close to 1400KM away from home at Bombay, unable to sleep; merely staring at the wall a little before midnight. There was a sense of melancholy and wishful ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By vinatibhola | Views [162] | Scholarship Entry
Huge snow-clad Himalayas gracefully surrounded a city dressed in white layer of pristine snow. The air smelled fresh and chiffon-like and dark grey clouds had gathered in the sky to treat us with heavy rainfall. Our driver Ghulam Rasood told us that if ... Read more >
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Thu, 15 May 2014 | By kitchen | Views [107] | Scholarship Entry
temple Wet against the setting sun seated on a rock , when asked about the temple to the three timeless man walking with machete , passed without acknowledging my presense. Found myself to be the forth walking on the same path that dropeed me to the ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By kogu | Views [182] | Scholarship Entry
What makes someone dripping blood, who had gotten stitches a few hours ago, anesthetic still not worn off and a chipped tooth ask “When are we coming back?” Or why a expert kayaker takes a trip with beginners? Or why one travels 7 hours on a bus through ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By travelbyts | Views [200] | Scholarship Entry
I desperately try to breathe in as much of the thin air as 11000 feet above sea level would allow me. The air is cold, & given my current state, seems to carry a strange slyness. In the whisker of a moment, the beauty of the Kashmiri landscape around ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By skishorer | Views [149] | Scholarship Entry
My most unforgettable experiences are from the old-city of Amdavad. It is one of those strange yet remarkable places where one can find the most dated & historically valued 15th century structures aside unabashedly kitschy modern buildings. The old-city ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By alishavee | Views [178] | Scholarship Entry
As I prepared to leave Mumbai, my home of two years, I took on a sort of emotional packing to piece together the smells and places and misery I should commit to memory – and those I could discard. I knew it was the food – the dripping, crunchy mixes ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By bex2519 | Views [213] | Scholarship Entry
I’ll never forget the day I arrived in Varanasi on the banks of the Ganges, a place of pilgrim, rituals and worship for thousands of years. It was slightly surreal to see what had epitomised India in my mind for so long. I headed to the Ghats to soak ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By yuvrajkhanna | Views [156] | Scholarship Entry
Does the day dawn differently on a dome of gold that’s alive with the resonance of prayers right in the center of a bustling city that’s over four hundred years old? At the famed Harmindar Sahib Gurudwara in Amritsar, It’s appears true to me even now.... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By lemenoya | Views [163] | Scholarship Entry
It was the summer of 96’ and our meticulously planned trip to the North was breathing life at last. We left home at 9.45 that night and after 15 hours of a rattling trains and deafening buses, reached Chandigarh. As per my purple ‘Beauty and the Beast’ ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By jessicacandrews | Views [1286] | Scholarship Entry
I thought it was a dead cow. The cow is revered in India, due to her nature of giving more to the world than she takes. Doleful cows wander the streets, pushing their noses into carts of fresh papaya and rubbing their protruding ribs against unwitting ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By theunknownpoet | Views [817] | Scholarship Entry
The woods have something new in store for us every time we give them a visit. Who would have known that by getting lost in the woods, we would have gained something that will stay with us for eternity. Mesmerised by the beauty of minute details the woods ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By katecameron | Views [165] | Scholarship Entry
Two hours ago, seated on empty wooden crates, at the edge of a bustling arena, we had taken delight in the culinary experience of Jodhpur’s legendary Omelette man. With Labrador-like enthusiasm we had lapped up half a dozen of the spicy eggs he had perfected ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By mally101 | Views [99] | Scholarship Entry
I’m sitting in the back of a pick-up van, coasting through the snake like curves of the Himalayas. Lush green valleys littered with man and beast, pockmarked with streams rush past my eyes to the East. My driver Mako, comfortably navigates the tricky ... Read more >
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