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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By salmantahir2011 | Views [133] | Scholarship Entry
There it was. Floating on the water in all its majesty. Flocked by hundreds of worshipers and tourists. The Golden Temple of Amritsar city. Earlier in the day, I had crossed the border from Pakistan on foot and ended up in this small, congested Indian ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By sanaarora | Views [323] | Comments [9] | Scholarship Entry
Passengers are drawn to the train like iron pieces to a magnet. I watch. Learn. Push. Push harder. Manage to fling one foot on the train, and pull myself into it. The train moves. What a miraculous achievement in the last 20 seconds! No entry perhaps, ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By kasineni | Views [228] | Scholarship Entry
There were my initials, carved onto one of the biggest and tallest trees I've ever seen. I holstered my knife standing among these huge redwood trees, gazing upon the mountain nearby, and breathed a sigh of happiness and achievement. I was making memories.... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By timeimmemorial | Views [1453] | Scholarship Entry
Last week on a quiet walk through the streets of Koramangala, because I usually find myself walking towards the towering wooden gates to the Ganapathi Seva Samiti Temple. This cold grey temple premise built in 1979, with its sculptors, and the smell of ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By cibelleinindia | Views [142] | Scholarship Entry
My life will never be the same after the time I spent in India. Visiting India is a crazy, fabulous, incredible and life-changing experience. I had a completely different image of India in my mind before going there, but I’m glad that I could leave the ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By davronbek | Views [298] | Scholarship Entry
I was in a hurry to meet with one of my close Indian friends whom I had not seen for long. As I rode across the street with heavy traffic jam and immensely crowded, vehicles in front of me stopped suddenly. Sounds of engines turned down and another noise ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By kamakshi | Views [179] | Scholarship Entry
The lone road streaking the steep mountainside was devoured by a mythical monster. The mountains moved and shifted shapes in Uttarakhand, a few miles off the Indo-Tibet border. Schisms revealed their rocky innards. Himalayan tectonic upsurges and cloudbursts ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By sujatasetia | Views [342] | Scholarship Entry
June lost hope on Delhi heat. July was en-route. Papa had to leave for duty tonight but first I was to be dropped to the train station where-upon his cousin, Hari would chaperon me. Hari lived in a small town of Jammu, from where my late mother-Ammi ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By lamalady30 | Views [515]
Your sojourns in far-away lands will bring you face-to-face with hundreds of people. These people will be fellow travellers, tourists, drivers, guides, kids, locals, photographers, newspaper vendors, caretakers of your accommodation, maids, street urchins, ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By globetrrotter91 | Views [136] | Scholarship Entry
Sittlingi is a quaint and quiet hamlet in Dharmapuri in TamilNadu, India. Seven of us packed our bags and went on the road to visit a school aiding in the wholesome education of the kids. Tired hungry and thirsty after an eight hour journey by bus, we ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By yashowc | Views [157] | Scholarship Entry
Right in front of me was a glass-wall.Beyond it were seated some 20 girls wearing swanky party dresses with an outrageous display of cleavage & equally outrageous make-up to match.They adorned numbers which were used to pick them. Amidst the maddening ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By hannahcogan | Views [161] | Scholarship Entry
The bitter, baking smell of road around Tikse monastery is heavy in the Indian afternoon. The sullen, heat-damped silence of my walk along the monastery's wall is shattered by a noise so loud it flattens me. Face down in the hard dirt, I can hear stifled ... Read more >
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Wed, 14 May 2014 | By wanderingrose | Views [1330] | Scholarship Entry
Indian weddings are deafening. What seemed like millions of voices pierced our ears as we entered a courtyard full of chaos. Music blared. A hundred faces turned and stared—the Americans had arrived. An unexpected invitation brought us here. The brightness ... Read more >
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Tue, 13 May 2014 | By veggietrotter | Views [314] | Scholarship Entry
The flamboyance of urban life can be rather exhausting. I, too, felt lost as I fought with my a-quarter-life crisis in a dazzling big city. Like many confused minds, I embarked on a soul searching journey to India, hoping to find enlightenment. Two ... Read more >
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