Notes from Hampi:

August 4, 2008

Ugra Narasimha: I stepped out of the Virupaksha temple from beneath the long shadow of its colossal tower onto the main street. It was lined on its either sides by an arcade of shops. And immediately I was thronged by a dozen guides, who must have, all this time patiently waiting in the shadows of [...]

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Notes from India

July 17, 2008

Bashir and Amid are half brothers, eight and eleven years old respectively who I met at the entrance of Golconda fort. They work at a sugarcane juice kiosk all day preparing juice for customers. Their work involves coaxing the tourists to buy a drink, thrusting the raw sugarcane into the squeezer and mixing the drink.They [...]

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Travel Token

July 17, 2008

 

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Notes from Manipal

July 17, 2008

I awoke early with a faint stench of Beer and Chicken lurking in my being. It was quarter to six. C was gloriously, happily asleep, and looked like to be in a Turiya of sort. After a few minutes of lazy ambivalence, I remembered the recommendation from many a friends to catch the sunrise or [...]

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Coup de Foudre

April 8, 2008

In Agra there are only two types of people. Locals and tourists. And then there is the Taj. That is Agra in a nutshell. Having driven from Delhi through the scorching sun , we reached Agra around noon. Hordes of guides and other self proclaimed local experts hounded the car park. With no energy or [...]

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Notes on Bombay

April 8, 2008

Notes on Bombay, Summer 2005 ~ As the plane descends through the last of the clouds an expanse of the neon washed Bombay grows slowly from the darkness beneath. Petite islets of bright lands with their slow flashing vehicles scattered all over the dark interrupted sea; a picture of a huge electric pancreas. The smell [...]

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Colombo

April 8, 2008

One of the good features of the Colombo airport is a well maintained smoking room. Firstly it is located in the nice part of the airport not requiring you to walk a marathon to have a fag unlike in some other airports. It also offers an overlooking view of the airport including the tarmac and [...]

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Border Roads Organisation

April 8, 2008

You have barely heard of the name Border Roads Organisation as you start off on the highest motorable road* in the world. And as the ascent begins it would not escape your eye how the road has been cleverly carved through the ruggedly masculine and majestic Himalayas, widening when needed and arching into a narrow [...]

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Meeting Pune

April 8, 2008

Awakened by the cold breeze, I realise that I’m on a night bus on way from Bombay to Pune. A Volvo if you like. “volvo hain saab. volvo hain saab” The guy at the counter had insisted proudly to coax me to buy the tickets.In India a Volvo is more than a Volvo.You even got [...]

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Notes from Bangalore

April 8, 2008

A moderate-sized hall with a few rows of seats arranged is the boarding lounge of Bangalore’s domestic airport. The weather had worsened unexpectedly disrupting the flight schedules. This stacked up the entire lounge with hordes of passengers creating quite a carnival atmosphere; I looked around desperately to escape away there was neither a bookstall to [...]

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