Indian Sweets The overflowing plate of dessert arrives and you look at it greedily, your exocrine glands release a flood of saliva which you quickly gulp. You wait impatiently for the others at the table to begin and then you dig in and place a generous scoop in your mouth. The taste buds on your […]
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The intriguing Banyan Tree island I do not have very pleasant childhood travel memories. Staying in the western part of India travelling mostly meant long and tedious train journeys across half the length of India. Those were the days when Air travel was still a luxury available only to a handful, and the Indian Railways
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One fateful day in the school bus a boy disdainfully looks at a girl he has hated all these years. Their eyes meet and suddenly in a fraction of a second everything changes. A strange chemical reaction gets triggered and hate turns into love, first love! On a crowded Metro, two strangers brush past each
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Sunfascination is in our DNA It is evening in Mount Abu, a hill station in the Indian state of Rajasthan which is better known for its wide expanse of desert sands and camels. A small boy, not more that 5 years is seated on a small rock gazing in awe at the setting sun. He
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A traveller’s realization: People are divided by borders but united by emotions How wonderful it would be for us travelaholics if the world was without borders! Oh! what fun it would be to travel across countries and continents without worrying about visas, passports and stampings. We would travel like the migratory birds across millions of
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Flights of Fantasy The plane moved forward and quickly picked up speed, I watched the ground whizzing past from my window, the terminal building in the distance vanished in a flash and soon I felt the springy feeling of weightlessness as we were airborne. No it was not my first flight! But every time I
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Flying high with the Kite Festival It was one of those lazy, sunny, Sundays when you just don’t want to do anything! I was lazing in an armchair watching the vast blue sky from my window when I spotted a lone yellow kite swaying in the breeze high up in the sky. It looked so
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Some may argue that planning itself diminishes the excitement and sense of anticipation of unexpected pleasures and experiences. I do agree wholeheartedly, but when you are travelling as a family and that too with kids planning eases out a lot of unexpected issues that you may encounter on your trip. Family Traveling Tips In travel also, the
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Adieu 2015 2015 has slowly but surely faded into history and left behind lingering memories, some sweet, some not so sweet. We step into 2016 with memories of the cool scented breeze of the Nilgiris and acres and acres of sloping tea gardens, of a road trip through the Indian state of Maharashtra to visit
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An adventurous trek I woke up to a cold, gloomy morning and opened the front door to collect the morning newspaper; All the social media platforms and the internet cannot replace my morning cuppa with the morning newspaper! 7 Die in Helicopter crash in Vaishnodevi The headlines screamed at me ! Apparently a bird hit
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