Contests and Giveaways

Contest Alert: 2016 Calendar Giveaway

Nov 042015
 
Contest Alert: 2016 Calendar Giveaway

2016 Calendar give away for readers, and fans of desi Traveler Dear Readers the annual desi Traveler Calendar give away is back, for all the wonderful people who read love and share desi Traveler blog. The contest this time is bigger than ever with more pictures added to the blog and more options to take part in the giveaway for desi Calendar 2016 2015 has been a great year for desi Traveler with mentions on multiple sites including on Indian Express and we have grown exponentially in last year or so. I want to thank each one of you reading this [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Superhero Mom gets marhaba surprise at Dubai Airport #marhabasurprises

Oct 302015
 
Superhero Mom gets marhaba surprise at Dubai Airport #marhabasurprises

We all have our favorite superhero that we worship and want to follow, but none comes even close to a single mom that raised six kids while working full-time. Every mom is a superhero in the eyes of her kids, for only a mom can juggle between a job and running a household with 6 kids and still manage to smile. In this post I share a beautiful story of Jodin and her sisters who work in Dubai while their mother lives in LA, USA due to health issues. I am sure you saw this video of marhaba surprises that I shared earlier. One [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Fall in Love with Britain the Shaandaar way

Oct 162015
 
Fall in Love with Britain the Shaandaar way

 Participate in the Visit Britain and Shaandaar Contest Great Britain is known for her magnificent castles, emerald-green countryside pastures, grand royal ceremonies. No wonder Britain is a favorite location of many Bollywood and Hollywood movies. Here is your chance to visit Great Britain and see the grandeur, the greenery, the natural as well as man-made wonders in Great Britain. All you need to do is watch this video about the soon to be released Bollywood movie Shaandaar featuring heart-throb Alia Bhatt and Shahid Kapoor. The movie takes you through some of the magnificent or Shaandaar locations in Great Britain [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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October 2015 Calendar – Download Desktop Wallpaper from Thailand

Sep 302015
 
October 2015 Calendar – Download Desktop Wallpaper from Thailand

  October 2015 Calendar Desktop Wallpaper Yai Chai Mongkhon Ayutthaya, Thailand October  is here and so is our October  2015 Calendar desktop wallpaper for download,  from your friendly neighborhood desi Traveler. The October calendar features the magnificent – Wat Yai Chai Mongkhon, one of the biggest Buddhist Temples in the former capital city of Ayutthaya. It is here in Ayutthaya only at the Wat Mahathat, you find the famous Buddha head in tree roots. At its peak Ayutthaya had no parallel in east or west for its magnificent palaces, great Buddhist stupas with sky-kissing Chedis ( sprires) , visible [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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September 2015 Calendar – Download Desktop Wallpaper

Aug 312015
 
September 2015 Calendar - Download Desktop Wallpaper

September 2015 calendar desktop wallpaper: Satpura Ke Ghane Jungle September is here and so is our September 2015 Calendar desktop wallpaper for download,  from your friendly neighborhood desi Traveler. Most of us when we go to jungle, focus on the big cats and return totally disappointed if they are unable to spot tigers. Don’t  get me wrong, I love tigers,  but in our country our love for tigers is very similar to our craze for cricket. Just like cricket crazy fans do not talk about any other sport, no matter what our sportsmen may achieve in other sports, same way wildlife for [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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The Game of Surprises : TinyOwl comes to rescue

Aug 302015
 
The Game of Surprises : TinyOwl comes to rescue

How My plan to surprise Wife jee & Kids backfired and how TinyOwl Saved the day   Disclaimer:  All Characters in this story are absolutely  real, and any resemblance to them is purely intentional.  What is a life without a few surprises? Every now and then life gives us surprises; some sweet and some not so sweet while some leading to something new. That I love to travel is no secret, but while most of my travels are with family or for business, every once in a while I too joined the haloed circle of backpackers and solo travelers and rough [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Archimedes and making of Lemon Flavored Timballo Siciliano

Aug 182015
 
Archimedes and making of Lemon Flavored Timballo Siciliano

My Eureka Moment :  Lemon Flavored Timballo Siciliano I am sure you know there are 50 Shades of Grey, and there are more than 50 different words and expression for Snow and ice in the frozen landscapes where Eskimos live. In our own country we have 1000 name of Lord Vishnu in Vishnu Sahastranama. The point I am trying to make bake here is that we tend to have many names and ways of speaking of things that we think a lot about. So is it surprising that there are more than 300 types of recognized Pasta shapes and [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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August 2015 Calendar – Download Desktop Wallpaper

Jul 312015
 
August 2015 Calendar - Download Desktop Wallpaper

August 2015 calendar desktop wallpaper: Kathakali Dancers from God’s Own Country   So August is here and so is our August 2015 Calendar desktop wallpaper for download,  from your friendly neighborhood desi Traveler.  This picture was clicked in the birth place of Kathakali, or God’s Own Country Kerala during a performance I witnessed at Vivanta by Taj Kovalam in Trivandaraum or Thiruvananthapuram ( and you wonder how come desi Kids win all spelling Bee competitions in US ). I had seen Kathakali earlier but it was my first live performance of Kathakali in the birthplace of Kathakali. Needless to [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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July 2015 Calendar- Download Desktop Wallpaper

Jun 302015
 
July 2015 Calendar- Download Desktop Wallpaper

July 2015 calendar desktop wallpaper: A playful Elephant Calf Half of 2015  is already gone, and monsoon is already showering relief from heat in most of the country while rest of us eagerly await for the first Monsoon Showers.  In the meantime I share with you the July  2015 desktop calendar to download. But first a bit about the picture: The picture was taken at the Elephant Camp in Dubare in Coorg as the calf discovered the cloth in the river next to a rock and decided to play with it. The behavior was not very different from a [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Mercedes Benz- Frame The Star

Jun 292015
 
Mercedes Benz- Frame The Star

Clicking Mercedes Benz for Frame The Star Contest I am typing this post sitting next to a cosy fireplace in the end of June. No I am not kidding I am in Chikmagalur  hills famous for their coffee and black-pepper plantations. I am here in this beautiful bungalow all excited about this contest called “Frame The Star “, conducted by Better Photography magazine along with Mercedez Benz India. The contest is very simple there are 3 stages, in stage one contestants submitted their car pictures to the magazine portal. A total of 30 participants were chosen for the second round. Some [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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