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Wagah Border of India and Pakistan
The spectacle at the Wagah border crossing point between India and Pakistan is an opportunity for the nationals of the two countries to show their patriotism. Some do that by screaming slogans against each others while others, like an Indian girl above, by dancing in the tunes of Bollywood numbers. Here I present photos and…
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A Day in Jammu
Here are the tweets that I started posting as I left Dharmashala for Jammu via Pathankot. Tweets stopped as I entered Jammu because there’s no internet service via phone in Jammu. The pre-paid phone connections didn’t work at all. A lady on her way back home from the Vaishodevi pilgrimage. I didn’t go there as…
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Dharmashala, India [Home of Dalai Lama]
I present here the photos taken in Dharmashala and tweets posted from the trip. #1. Back to backpacking. Feels like I am Home 🙂 3:08 AM Aug 29th from TwitterFon #2. This auto driver, with sunglasses n short hair n halka daari, is ‘babaal hero’ though he didn’t discount in the IRs 70 fare to…
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Face Value: Being a Nepali in India
What are Nepalis and Indians supposed to look like? Search me! By Dinesh Wagle Wagle Street Journal This article first appeared in today’s Kathmandu Post. Here is the PDF page It’s also available in eKantipur, and the official webpage of the Post. I often carry my passport these days in Delhi whenever I go out.…
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Back in Delhi
And today we are back in Delhi. It was around 20 hours train ride from Bandra, Mumbai to Nizamuddin. It was ok and we were all tired. We are super tired. It was not a particularly long journey but it was a whirlwind. Coming back to delhi was like being in the frying pan again…
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Bombay. Day II
Crossing the Bombay sea bridge Here is first part of this entry and photo album 10. Wondering where’s Sandra in Bandra 🙂 [btw, dats interesting documentry screened in Film South Asia some yrs ago. 11. The great Indian railway bazaar, as appeared in yesterday’s Kathmandu Post: http://tinyurl.com/nr48wj. 12. Inside a local train to VT. Destinations:…
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Bombay! Second Edition
This post talks about events happened in July 11 (yesterday, the first of our two days in Bombay): Last time when I woke up inside a Goa-Bombay train compartment, I was in Victoria Terminus (CST), right in the heart/lung/or whatever of the city. That was in October last year. This time, on Saturday 11 July…
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Anjuna, Goa. [Second Day]
The following photos were taken in Kolva Beach, Goa, the Cafe Coffee Day near the beach and in Madgaon train station. @Madgaon Train Station, Goa The following post details the events happened on 10-11 July. 10 July: Second day in Goa. We woke up at 9 am and headed to the beach at 10. There…
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Goa, Again!
The First Day: The following post details the events happened on 9th July. It was written on the same day and posted on 11 July. July 9: So today, we arrived in Goa. I was here in last October. But not in the famous Anjuna beach where we are staying tonight. Instead of taking bus…
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The Great Indian Railway Bazaar
This article first appeared on Saturday’s (11 July 2009) Kathmandu Post By Dinesh Wagle The moment of shock came soon after I was awakened. At the time of leaving Kanya Kumari, the southern tip of India where land ends and water begins, on a cloudy day last week, the train was virtually empty as it…
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