Category: India
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Jaisalmer in Gold – A Desert Festival
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Trekking in The Great Thar Desert – A Return to India
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Still Time For The Bones To Rise
Bones begin to return from the abyss of british excess. I feel them as i fall out of a rickshaw onto the road. Pelvis and stitches to the left, breast bones to my heart and a rib cage i can see again under a not so distant surface. Nothing broken and still time for the skeleton to…
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Is Roller Skating a Meditation?
You can’t relax with it, i can’t relax without it. Where do we fit without fear? Inhale – Exhale – Exhale Inhale. Nothing everything. Internal external. Dread panic nothing. Pre Earthquake….. Mogal Shari station was hell; only because of the amount of time we spent there due to miss information from our previous hoast. Sitting…
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Budgies, Beans and Buddha…… and a Thank You From My Liver!
Leaving Varanasi was bitter-sweet. Far to hectic for now. We traveled to Sarnath, 7 kilometers out of the city looking for space, and space we found. Parks, temples and a wonderful Jain family to play host. Buddha came to Sarnath to preach his message of the middle way to nirvana after achieving enlightenment in Bodhgaya.…
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Surviving the Sikkim Earthquake
I have not brushed my teeth for three days, but why would i when i am in the middle of an earthquake? The journey from Darjeeling took an un-expected turn. Not so un-expected if you have read previous posts. The jeep started shaking but on reflection it was not the jeep but the earth, the…
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Work It, Goats!
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You Want Boat or Goat? – A Ride Down The Ganges
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Mumbai to Varanasi – Over and Out!
Today i would have been inducting my new groups of students, but instead i am traveling north from Mumbai to Varanasi. Boarding the Mahanagari express at Mumbai CST was dare i say a pleasure. Traveling in 2AC is very much the way forward. Yes its more expensive than the cheapest option but the contrast in…
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Monsoon Mumbai
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My Nostrils Are Alive, With The Smell of Mumbai
It’s totaly lashing down like nothing else i have ever experienced in Mumbai. The arrival came at 4:00 AM on Thursday morning. We were picked up by a turban clad Sikh who drove us to our pre-booked, over priced shit hole overlooking the Arabian Sea. The taxi ride through a wet dark city was rather…
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I Love My India
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