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Comic Con Express Hyderabad India

Sep 172013
 
Comic Con Express Hyderabad India

  Comic Con Express Hyderabad- The Super Heroes are coming Confession Time: I grew on a healthy staple diet of stories of superheroes in all shapes and forms. Phantom the Ghost who walks, Mandrake the Magician and Chacha Chowdhry, the man whose brain works faster than Super computer were my constant companions during my secret mission when I would save a damsel or two in distress. In those days of no Facebook and SMS and WhatsApp we gang of pre-teens had our own sophisticated network of communication and book keeping to exchange comics, decide who will buy which one [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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desi IN Wow Hyderabad Magazine

Sep 122013
 
desi IN Wow Hyderabad Magazine

desi in Wow Hyderabad Magazine September is a special month, this marks the anniversary of desi Traveler moving on its own domain with the post on  A Rare Ganapati that I found in interiors of MP. Another first has happened this September. While desi Traveler has  featured as a blog a few times in different online and print media, including one of my pictures appearing in Deccan Chronicle and two of my pictures from Tal Chapar winning prizes from Lonely Planet in a photography competition, I have never written a post for a print magazine or newspaper. Recently I was approached [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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A Trip down the memory lane with Chitrahaar

Sep 092013
 

Traveling with Movies- A trip down memory lane with Chitrahaar from Bollywood I am part of the Doordarshan generation, yes the good old DD, and that too the Black and White one. We had one TV in our extended family, taking the pride of place in the bedroom of one of my uncles.  This was the hallowed room for us, allowed entry only once in a week on Wednesday when the weekly Bollywood dose of Chitrahaar was aired. For the ipod and Youtube generation it will not be out of place to inform what Chitrahaar was. You see in [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Book Review of I Take This Train Too

Jul 132013
 
Book Review of I Take This Train Too

A Book Review of – I Take This Train Too by Cyrus Daruwala My Dear Readers I am sure,   by now you know how much I love travelling by trains, and have written posts about not only travelling in trains but also steps to book train tickets in tatkal on IRCTC website.  But recently I discovered somebody who not only loves taking  train but  also writes about it. I discovered about the book “I Take This Train Too” on the crowd funding site Wishberry, where author Cyrus Daruwala was looking for funding for his book.  Needless to say I [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Le Road Trip In A Hippie Volkswagen Kombi

May 202013
 
Le Road Trip In A Hippie Volkswagen Kombi

    A Road Trip Around The World In A  Volkswagen Kombi: Following the Hippie Trail Sebastian and Soize are a French couple who were not even born when the Flower Children were painting their Volkswagen Kombis with  floral designs and burning rubber on the roads to the Woodstock in late 60s.  Soon the Volkswagen Combi  ( both spellings are used in different part of world) was the wheel of choice for Nirvana seeking Hippies who made Kombis their home and took it from Cairo to Kathmandu playing music more colorful than the flowers painted on their mobile homes. Dollar deprived economies in Asia like Nepal and India were [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Cycling Vacations In India- What you need to Know before going on a cycling vacation

Apr 252013
 
Cycling Vacations In India- What you need to Know before going on a cycling vacation

    Cycling Vacations In India – A Few Things to Know Are you planning  cycling vacations in India? Well I suggest you first read below before you book your tickets for  cycling vacations in India so that you are prepared for them and have a pleasant experience. There was a time when India was a nation of Bicycles, and bicycles are one item that India produces more than any other country in the world. So why is it that you rarely find bicycles in big cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Chennai etc? Well the reasons are not [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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A Journey By Bus From Hyderabad To Mahbubnagar

Mar 122013
 
A Journey By Bus From Hyderabad To Mahbubnagar

Reaching Koil Konda Fort by Bus from Hyderabad to Mahbubnagar Given a choice my first preference to go anywhere is take an overnight train, sleep in the train and arrive at destination next day. If the journey is too long, then I    take one of the low cost airlines, only on very few occasions I have dared to take a Bus to go anywhere, like when I went to Hampi in a Volvo bus. So this weekend when I joined the GHAC trek to Koil Konda fort in Mahbubnagar district, I was a little skeptical, to take the bus [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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4 Women Who Travel and Lead

Mar 082013
 
4 Women Who Travel and Lead

  A Special Post on Women’s day about 4 Women who travel and lead The Times They Are a-Changin’ sang Bob Dylan in 60s and trust me the times have not stopped changing since. The challenge is we as a society are not willing to accept that the patriarchal rules formed many moons ago unilaterally by men are way beyond their expiry date. There has been a lot of hue and cry in the country about safety of women traveler, and everybody and their uncle coming up with GYAN about the same.  So I thought on Women’s day why [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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Boat to Nagarjunakonda Island Museum in Nagarjuna Sagar

Feb 162013
 
Boat to Nagarjunakonda Island Museum in Nagarjuna Sagar

 Taking A Boat  to Nagarjunakonda Island Museum in Nagarjuna Sagar   Boats have a special significance in Indian mythology, my earliest memory of a boat is watching Ramleela (Ramayana played as a stage play,  with a boatman taking Lord Ram across the river. For some reason, boats were not available to launch an attack on Lanka, so the Vanar Sena ( army of apes)  had to build a bridge over the sea. Or may be just may be Lord Ram did not want to take chances with all those Vanars on the boat. Please read my account of taking [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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7 Steps to Quickly Book Tatkal Railway Ticket Online on IRCTC website Fast

Feb 142013
 
7 Steps to Quickly Book Tatkal Railway Ticket Online on IRCTC website Fast

 Tips To Quickly Book IRCTC Tatkal Railway Tickets Online  on IRCTC site in first 15 minutes   If you want to know how to book IRCTC Tatkal tickets online fast, then you have come to the right place. But first a little background about this post. We enjoy traveling by trains, but sometimes are unable to plan, so one needs to book tickets in Tatkal on IRCTC website.Tatkal means quick, but booking Tatkal ticket online on IRCTC website is anything but Tatkal(quick). Recently I was very frustrated trying to book IRCTC Tatkal railway ticket online on IRCTC website. The site was slow, unresponsive [Continue Reading By Clicking Here…]

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