Destination: India

love with a slap

Sun, 11 May 2014 | By puneet003 | Views [259] | Scholarship Entry

the first movement when i met my dream lover .it was summer time in 2007 when i was in 8th class ,and there is a big garden near my home where everyone use to come for walk .those days i usually go for a walk and play suddenly i saw a girl over walking ... Read more >

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A different kind of wedding.

Sun, 11 May 2014 | By john_cooper88 | Views [248] | Scholarship Entry

She sits on the floor, her head slumped down and a tear in her eye. Her Sari is a vibrant mix of red and green and she is wearing all her finest jewellery. Everybody is cheerful around her but she is crying. I kneel down beside her and try to offer ... Read more >

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Photos: India 2009

Sun, 11 May 2014 | By voyage_voyage | Photo Gallery

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Never Plan Your Journeys!

Sun, 11 May 2014 | By voyage_voyage | Views [247] | Scholarship Entry

6 a.m. Train Station in GOA, India. Somehow we got there in spite of all the heat and lack of tickets. Two days on a train. +35C at daytime in the car without glass in windows, +12C at nights with air conditioning. Delicious tomato soup with crackers ... Read more >

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Magic in the air

Sat, 10 May 2014 | By pcyra | Views [316] | Scholarship Entry

My parents did their graduate studies in India, and at that time we were too young to remember most of the things, so when people asked us about India, we could barely tell them anything. It is after all, one of the most interesting countries in the world, ... Read more >

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Blind Tasting

Sat, 10 May 2014 | By meenakshi | Views [198] | Scholarship Entry

“See the city in a whole new light…by not seeing it at all” read the Facebook invite for an event organised by the BMW Guggenheim Lab in Mumbai. And without probing any further into the description of the event, I signed up and landed at Mahim beach in ... Read more >

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With the Dawn, Came Serene Beauty

Sat, 10 May 2014 | By kayo-kai | Views [260] | Scholarship Entry

Just as I was slipping into my night wear after lazing around the lawns in my college, I received a call. It was 2 am and in an impulse I got convinced to hit the rhododendron roads towards the majestic Himalayas. I dumped an extra pair of clothing in ... Read more >

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Long walk on the beach is in fact magical!

Sat, 10 May 2014 | By jules2517 | Views [227] | Scholarship Entry

The first time I stepped onto the soft sand at the Goa beach it was every bit as cheesy as all the movies would have you believe. I couldn't imagine anything as perfect as the blanket of stars above me and the silver aura of the moonlight bathing me and ... Read more >

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Discovering love for my motherland

Fri, 9 May 2014 | By charishma | Views [220] | Scholarship Entry

I was twelve when I decided that my honeymoon destination will be Seychelles, after watching on television, a beauty pageant held there. I knew that the jungles of the Amazon was my ultimate destination, after I saw them through the Discovery and National ... Read more >

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Walk; don't run

Fri, 9 May 2014 | By swetha | Views [228] | Scholarship Entry

I'll never forget the day I met Mira. **** In 2008, my parents decided that we needed a family vacation. We're South-Indians who live in North India, so there's been a persistent mystique about the southern part of our country. On the 12th day of our ... Read more >

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My AW! sum India

Fri, 9 May 2014 | By trekker80 | Views [161] | Scholarship Entry

India is diverse as it has been said on many a travel website / blogs. I am from India and live and breathe the not so clean air daily. Part of me probably suffers from a million diseases that we breed :), but drink that "unclean Holy water from the ... Read more >

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Really Virtual-Journey From Virtual to Real World

Fri, 9 May 2014 | By garnawat | Views [187] | Scholarship Entry

“Been forced to visit a village! :( Miss u already Delhi!” I posted from the train to Rajasthan where I had to go to attend a cousin’s 25th marriage anniversary in the ‘remotest possible’ village. After de-boarding the train at Madhopur station, I raised ... Read more >

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Don't Look Down

Fri, 9 May 2014 | By cchacko | Views [150] | Scholarship Entry

I eyed the distance between the two boulders. Standing on a ledge, the sun beat down on me. Above, an idyllic painted sky blending with the ocean for miles. I had traded the peaceful family travel below the rocks for the payoff of uncertainty and the ... Read more >

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Silence of The Lands.

Fri, 9 May 2014 | By shwetas1008 | Views [247] | Scholarship Entry

I'll never forget the day that I decided to go to Ladakh, India - 'the land of high passes' with a random group of people I met on a website for a music festival to be held there in July 2010. As fate would have it, the music festival was cancelled at ... Read more >

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GOD's OWN COUNTRY

Fri, 9 May 2014 | By stanly | Views [174] | Scholarship Entry

I'm taking you to one of the of the ten paradises of the world which is globally famous for its serene and scenic beauty enclosed in the lap of Mother Nature. This beautiful place is adorned with the sheer wonderment of nature and is beautifully nestled ... Read more >

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