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India Travel Guide Online
India is a huge place and seems about three times as large when you try to travel through it by train and bus. It’s home to more than a billion ...
India Culture Guide
If ever there was a headache for the anthropologist it’s the complex culture of India. With one of the world’s oldest religions and a tendency to absorb every social, political ...
The Bombay Blasts and Citizen Journalism
Once again tourists abroad have been seen as fair game by terrorist groups as gunmen opened fire in hotels across Mumbai (better known to Indians as Bombay) and explosions ...
Why India is Crazy
This video pretty much says it all about India – crazy land of no logic.
India - An Overcrowded Continent
If it could be said that I lost my heart in Africa then it must be said that I found my soul in India. Now I know at least one ...
Beggar's Karma - India, Japan, Iran
In India when one chooses to give a few rupees to a beggar by the side of the road it’s good etiquette to salute him at the same time. He, ...
Calcutta Travel Railroad Riot in India
“It is possible to grow up and mature in a culture with little or no knowledge of the basic laws that make it work and differentiate it from all other ...
India Travel Stories: Holy Cows
I remember having a strange conversation with Vijay, the second-hand book merchant on the central drag of the main bazaar in Delhi. We stood next to the piles of books ...
India Travel Story Sanjay Dutt in Tamil
This is a story about television and fame and begins in the unlikely setting of a humble eatery in South India. I was famished and stopped at the first street-side ...
Fake Visa in India Escape Story
How to avoid the nasty implications of overstaying your visa, some sweating it out required.
It was always a good idea in Goa to look down at your feet once ...
India Travel Story Rickshaw
It had just topped 45 °C, the sun was blazing high above us in a clear blue sky and a hot wind was blowing across the cracked dry plain drying ...
Road to Nowhere India Travel Story
Before I came here to India, my Mum said “You must go to Sujangarh where your father was born. And when you do, ask for the ‘Head Man’ – when ...
India Stories: Pahar Ganj World's Craziest Street
There is a very special street in Delhi that is a curious mixture of the old and the new, the best and the worst of what the city has ...
India Bus Nightmare Travel Story
Our bus is due to leave at 3.00 p.m. so we have made sure to arrive early, around 3.00 p.m. We inquire of the bus. “Ah!”, says one worthy, ...
Third World India
I remember clearly the panic that hit as I stepped outside Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi for the first time. Although it was night the sultry heat swallowed ...
BPO In India - Outsourcing Business and School Essays to Asia
The buzzword in major Indian cities these days is BPO, otherwise known as business processing outsourcing. BPO is accredited for the growth in the economy, increased spending power in the ...
Motorbiking India: The Dangerous and Irresponsible Way
Every red blooded man dreams of be-striding a Royal Enfield Bullet and riding through the Rajasthan desert, a full tank of fuel, sans crash hat and a map that Long ...
Riding the Elephants
When I hopped my silver jet to India, it was only with one thought in mind: to ride the elephants.
Riding elephants isn’t a new experience for me. Like most ...
Chasing rainbows in Chennai, India
I had been watching satellite TV in my hotel room for far too long. The more I watched, the wearier I became. The advertisements were almost carbon copies of the ...
The art of evasion on an Indian train
It was yet another long-haul train journey. I was heading south from Calcutta and can remember passing the time (and there was a lot of it) by talking to Ramesh. ...
Journey's end in Chennai
Many foreign tourists who visit Chennai (Madras) do not stay long. The crowds, traffic and the India-style chaos that typifies the subcontinent overwhelm and more than a few try to ...
Indian Odyssey on the Road to Nowhere
As a child in the 1960s the penetrating wail of the rag and bone man was a common occurrence. The what? you may ask. Well he was the local collector ...
