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Diving into Delhi

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 | By craigandsimon | Views [5613] | Comments [30]

India Ahoy! We both arrived at New Delhi Airport with no idea what awaited us. We had heard stories of people outside the airport grabbing at your bags and taxi drivers trying to take you to the wrong hotel. What a relief it was when everything was ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

Defence

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 | By damonlk | Views [1352]

Jodhpur and Jaisalmer were founded to defend the great desert trading routes east and so surround enormous stone and mortar forts built atop rocky bluffs in the centre of town. From below the forts are everywhere visible, and from their ramparts ... Read more >

Tags: Culture

How time flies...

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 | By alexbg | Views [987] | Comments [4]

Wow, okay so it's taken me some time to get back and write something about all that has been going on over here. I'm happy to report that I am finally settled in my new home. Over the past week I've had my first Hindi class, which is beginning to pay ... Read more >

Tags: Laughter

I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 | By sophsossig | Views [880] | Comments [1]

G'day folks - the rumours are true! Eddy and Patsy are no more - Annie left the country and returned to Blighty about a week ago and is it just a coincidence that I have been sick and confined to bed since then!?!?! Could also be that bloody infection ... Read more >

Tags: Doctors, hospitals & health

Daybreak in Delhi

Sat, 5 May 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [777]

The streets come alive and are crawling with activity. We're staying in a local neighborhood of Karol Baugh, northeast of the city center. People hurry to their street jobs; rack of clothing are set up on the streets like a Nordstrom sale, advertising ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

Thoughts from "Maladi"

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 | By salvation_karmy | Views [697] | Comments [13]

Hello everyone! It has been incredible and at times overwhelming to consider God's love which has been shown to us through the people here as well as the encouragement you each leave in your comments. I can definitely tell that many of you have been ... Read more >

Day 1 - It's Bloody Mental

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 | By sophsossig | Views [515] | Comments [2]

12th Jan 07 arrived in Delhi (to our slight disappointment!!)as were offered 400 pounds by BA not to take our flight today because of overbooking and instead fly tomorrow. Unfortunately BA did not pick us in the end and we got our flight as scheduled ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

Delwara Jain Temples

Tue, 11 Feb 2014 | By vagabondstoo | Views [495]

If marble could sing its melody would be the delicate beauty of the Delwara Jain temples. And its words would be of the thousands of artisans and laborers and the decades of their lives they devoted to carving the pillars, walls and ceilings of ... Read more >

INDIA- Part 1

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 | By sambarton | Views [334] | Comments [1]

Arriving in India was always going to be a full on experience that I doubt I will ever forget. Not only is is the first point of call on the world tour, my first backpacking adventure, but also it is a place of opposites compared to bonnie scotland. ... Read more >

Tags: Mountains

Being vs. Having

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 | By lakisarah | Views [224]

At home in the mirror I face my own face to see what I am made of. You see what your made of, do judge the worth the hair and the nose. But make a conscious decision that the worth of a person resonates out from the heart. A muscle made strong by cyclical ... Read more >

Memories Of Asia

Wed, 12 Aug 2015 | By vagabones | Views [219] | Video | Scholarship Entry

I am a 20 year old french girl that grew up in Carcassonne, a small town with a big castle located in the South of France for the first seventeen years of my life. After obtaining my literature license I decided to move on to Toulouse and begging my studies ... Read more >

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Unwonted Backpack

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By sairam | Views [106] | Scholarship Entry

'You should join us on the yatra', my father proposed. Over the last 75 years, my family’s annual tradition is the pilgrimage to Sabarimala temple in Kerela. Situated deep in the Periyar Tiger Reserve, amid lush green forests in the Western Ghats, it ... Read more >

Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship

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Thu, 7 May 2015 | By tuiyu3 | Views [93] | 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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Photos: Passport & Plate - Mirchi bajji

Mon, 23 Feb 2015 | By appetite-stories | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

Ingredients Mirchi (Green chilli)-250 grams Palli podi (peanut powder)-20 grams Uppu(Salt)-1 ¼ table spoon nimma uppu(lemon salt)-1 table spoon manchi nune(vegetable Oil)-1/4 liter Senaga pindi (Bengal gram flour)-250 grams Biyyam pindi (Rice flour)-... Read more >
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Tags: 2015 passport & plate: sri lanka