 | Oh, one last thing
2009-01-21, Mumbai - Andheri West - Sketchy Cyber Cafe, India. By: rupal5481 | | I love Mumbai. I will write my last thoughts when they come but you're right Dr. Wheeler, you should be jealous! ;o)
Being alone navigating the city has been a great experience. One of my favorit... |
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| DOTS center
2009-01-21, Mumbai - Andheri West - Sketchy Cyber Cafe, India. By: rupal5481 | | Ok, so I have to also tell you about a programme that has taken off and done very well in India.
As many of you know, tuberculosis is common in India. I spent Friday at what is known as a DOTS cen... |
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| My apologies
2009-01-21, Mumbai - Andheri West - Sketchy Cyber Cafe, India. By: rupal5481 | | I am so sorry guys about being so flaky for the past week. You see, I managed to develop yet another strange fever and spent most of the weekend in bed. Fortunately, I am all better!
So, let's se... |
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| Uttarayan and Maker Sankranti - The Kite Festival
2009-01-15, Mumbai - Andheri West - Sketchy Cyber Cafe, India. By: rupal5481 | | After waking up at 3am this morning to drive back to Mumbai from Gujarat, I am finally here.
The kite festival, or Uttarayan as it is called, was awesome. I went to a city named Navsari on Tuesday... |
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| South Mumbai (the place of the attacks)
2009-01-15, Mumbai - Andheri West - Sketchy Cyber Cafe, India. By: rupal5481 | | After a series of unexpected events following an exhausting, yet fun, day of flying kites, I finally made it back to Mumbai at 8am this morning.
Before I tell you about my trip to Gujarat, I have t... |
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| A few links
2009-01-12, Mumbai - Andheri West - Sketchy Cyber Cafe, India. By: rupal5481 | | Hey guys -
Keep the messages coming! It's like a little present each time I check my journal on this "high speed" internet. "High speed" is more like AOL version 2 dial-up.
This week starte... |
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 | 4 Days on the Road in India
2009-01-15, Chandigargh, India. By: Damo | | My release from the prison of Dhamma Sikhara marked my re-entry into the real world and strolling back to my possessions in Bhagsu was a strange feeling. A transformation had taken place within me an... |
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| First week
2009-01-10, Mumbai - Andheri West - Sketchy Cyber Cafe, India. By: rupal5481 | | Hey guys! I am so sorry about the rather long delay in writing. This week has been a bit hectic and time consuming.
The first day started off with an introductory lecture about the program followe... |
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 | International Yoga Festival
2009-01-04, Pondicherry, India. By: yogibeari | | The 16th International Yoga Festival (IYF) in Pondicherry has officially begun. There are two sides to the event, the actual yogasana competition and the workshops and discourse. I am part of the latt... |
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 | New Year in Matri Mandir
2009-01-01, Auroville, India. By: yogibeari | | Leaving Chiang Mai the day after my money was stolen from my room, I arrived in India late that evening. It was a long day spent at the airport from Chiang Mai, to Bangkok to Bengaluru. Now I am back ... |
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| India Week 1
2008-12-12, Bodali Village (The Gaam), Gujarat, India, India. By: india2009 | | Hello people,
internet has been a bit slow so it's taken us a month to get around to setting up this journal. Anyway, I've just put up a dozen photos from week one. Week one was spent in Bodal, th... |
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 | Back from Uva
2009-01-04, Mumbai - Andheri West - Sketchy Cyber Cafe, India. By: rupal5481 | | I got back from Gujarat yesteray. I logged on to my travel journal today to find a mysterioso message from someone named "Ranbir." Does anyone know who this is? If so, make sure to kick him in the ... |
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 | Journey of Truth
2008-12-31, Dharamkot, India. By: Damo | | Life is one big series of decisions. Most are small and inconsequential, such as deciding what to have for breakfast or which Sunday night movie to watch, or have consequences that can not possibly b... |
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| I am here!
2008-12-31, Mumbai - Andheri West - Sketchy Cyber Cafe, India. By: rupal5481 | | Hello there friends. It took me a while to find one of these rumoured cyber cafes. As some of you may know, I arrived here safely on the evening of the 29th.
After a long flight consisting of a... |
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 | Hung by my own petard
2008-12-31, Benaulim, India. By: marlau | | The beach shack that we frequent was having a Xmas dinner at about four times the price of a usual meal compounded by the fact that it was a typical English Xmas dinner of roast beef, roast potatoes a... |
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 | On & Off the Yoga Bandwagon
2008-12-30, Bhagsu, India. By: Damo | | Despite knowing that I would be riding from nothing to nearly 2,000m, I expected to cruise effortlessly from Mandi to the hills of Dharamsala. Perhaps that having cycled to Ladakh, I thought that eve... |
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| A sudden attack of reality
2008-12-18, On my couch in Little Rock, India. By: Rupal5481 | | Today, I realized that I only had 10 days left before I load the plane for India. Not only have I not bought the things I need to pack, I don't even have a suitcase. I did get one thing done today. ... |
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 | My Tata Days
2008-12-16, Leh Highway, India. By: Damo | | It was mid-September, the nights in Leh were becoming increasingly colder, the snowline on the mountains outside my bedroom window was visibly dropping day by day and the mass exodus of tourists and b... |
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| The Beach Vendor
2008-12-13, Benaulim, India. By: marlau | | Well we're well settled into our routine which involves food, sun, reading, sudoku and socializing. Hard to believe we have been here for ten days. Many people we have met are getting ready to leave a... |
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 | Peace at Last
2008-12-12, Leh, India. By: Damo | | While I would like to be able to say that we completed our epic journey by entering Leh in a triumphant blaze of sparkling spokes and powerful, confident pedal strokes, in actual fact, we were weak, d... |
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| Just Arrived
2008-12-11, Benaulim, India. By: marlau | | Our first journal entry for this year. We were rerouted from Mumbai to Bangalore because of the terroist attack in Mumbai. As we have toured Bangalore and surrounding area on a previous trip we decide... |
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| Pondicherry and Danvangere
2008-11-24, Bangalore, India. By: yogibeari | | 22 November, Saturday
Greetings, y’all. Between studies and socializing, the week behind was very much full. Guru and I went to Puducherry for a day so he can discuss our school’s participation in ... |
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| Studies and Challenges Continue
2008-11-17, Bangalore, India. By: yogibeari | | 16 November, Sunday
The “shift” or relocation was, again, uneventful. There was no thunderous excitement rather I was imbued with caveat and somewhat discouraged despair of the presence of an ether... |
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 | Always One More
2008-11-13, Leh Highway, India. By: Damo | | Unfortunately, claims that the monsoon does not travel past [i]Rohtang La[/i] proved to be somewhat unfounded and under grey skies we continued to be spat on from above as we slid down and along the b... |
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