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Shah Rukh Khan: Don’t Apologize to Shiv Sena
Update (04-Jan): Speaking in London where he is promoting his movie My Name is Khan, Shah Rukh Khan today said: “I don’t know what the issue is all about…I don’t know what I am supposed to retract. Am I supposed to retract the fact I’m an Indian but I don’t want anyone to come to…
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Streets of Kolkata, India
Kolkata was one of the four largest cities in India where I hadn’t been to until October 2009. I went to Mumbai in October 2008, Delhi a month later and Chennai in July 2009. By the time I went to Kolkata, I had visited Mumbai once again in July 2009 and I have been living…
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विहार अब त्यस्तो छैन
दिनेश वाग्ले वाग्ले स्ट्रिट जर्नल गए साता काठमान्डूमा भारतीय राजदूतले त्यही गरे जो उनले गर्नुपर्ने हो- आथितेय मुलुकको आन्तरिक मामिलामा अनावश्यक चासो दिनुको साटो आफ्नो देशको प्रवद्र्धन गर्ने । ‘केही मानिस नेपालको विहारीकरण हुने कुरा गर्छन्,’ २६ जनवरीका दिन भारतीय गणतन्त्र दिवस मनाउन आयोजित कार्यक्रममा राकेश सुदले भनेछन्– ‘तर बिहारलाई हेर्नुहोस, आर्थिक बृद्धि ११ प्रतिशत…
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Shillong and Cherrapunji
Traveling with two IITians: Cherrapunji to Kolkata [PDF version of the article in Koseli] The event described in the blog happened in the first week of October. Here’s Parmalink: http://wp.me/pjyem-s6 The highway leading up to Shillong from Assam’s Guwahati was terrific. The trip began with some glitches. The road in the beginning is being expanded.…
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IPL is not India-Pakistan League
Pakistanis should know that the I in IPL stands for Indian, not International. And the P definitely doesn’t stand for Pakistan. IPL is not the India-Pakistan League. It’s purely an Indian Premier League of cricket. A tournament for the Indians, by the Indians and of the Indians. I am amazed by the responses of some…
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Jaipur Literature Festival 2010
“How was it?” asked my friend Deepak when he knew from me that I was back in Delhi from attending two days of Jaipur Literature Festival. Here’s what I replied: It was good. Very few books were to be seen as it wasn’t a book festival but literature. Writers talked about not just their books…
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बनारसी संस्कृत
दिनेश वाग्ले वाग्ले स्ट्रिट जर्नल ह्वाईट फिल्ड र मल्पी जस्ता नाम भएका काठमान्डूका अंग्रेजी स्कुलबाट एसएलसी र ए लेभल गर्ने, नेपाली अप्ठेरो ठान्ने र खुला सफ्वटेयर आन्दोलनमा रुचिहुने एउटा युवकमा अचेल संस्कृत पढ्ने भुत सवार भएको छ । इन्टरनेट खोतल्दै गर्दा एकदिन ‘कृत्तिम बौद्धिकता’ र संस्कृत भाषा’bout अमेरिकी अन्तरिक्ष संस्था नासाका एक अनुसन्धाताको रिपोर्ट पढेपछि…
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Khajuraho: A Tour of Erotic Carvings and Statues
The Khajuraho temples do not contain sexual or erotic art inside the temple or near the deities; however, some external carvings bear erotic art. Also, some of the temples that have two layers of walls have small erotic carvings on the outside of the inner wall. There are many interpretations of the erotic carvings. They…
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Massage at Varanasi Ghats
You have to be a local or an expert haggler to survive in Varanasi. If not, a rickshaw-wallah will sell you right there, on the street as you stand, to another rickshaw-wallah! Almost all tourists have to go through sometime torturous and unending offers of all kinds from touts, wannabe guides and rickshaw/autowallahs. Those offers…
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Varanasi: Five Years On
Unlike other Indian cities, Varanasi offers amazing excitements and challenges to tourists. First visit: 24 December 2004. Second visit: 6 January 2010 My visit to Varanasi five years ago was first in many aspects. That was my first India trip, my first visit to any city outside Nepal. That was my first encounter with the…
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