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Pushkar - From 8 pairs of eyes....

nobody@vox.com(devingel) — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:42:46 +0530

In the past year, I've done 2 trips to Pushkar. Each had its own flavor. One was done during the Pushkar Festival. A photography trip where I saw India in all its Indian-ness through the eyes of 4 photographers and 4 different cameras. I can't say...

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Of babes and serendipity in the hills...

nobody@vox.com(devingel) — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:58:16 +0530

Saatal, Nainital, Almora, Kausani, Ranikhet, Ramnagar...there are so many names to the hills of Uttaranchal but none of them as beautiful as the actual terraced hills cut apart by water tumbling over rocky beds. The Tarai region of Uttaranchal is...

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The trip of the hill houses...

nobody@vox.com(devingel) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:21:07 +0530

Interesting architecture...views to die for...and time enough to waste it as I liked....My diwali gift to myself. This Diwali, since we are not celebrating, we decided to head out of town to Kothgarh. A friend has houses and orchards there. It is...

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When the enormity of the himalayas came home to me...

nobody@vox.com(devingel) — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:42:26 +0530

Come long weekends, we all head out in the rush to make the most of the snippets of time that work affords us. That is exactly what we all did when we headed for the hills on the April 6th weekend. We had 4 days on our hands and nowhere to go!...

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A journey to the back of beyond...into the past to prepare for the future!

nobody@vox.com(devingel) — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:05:39 +0530

My husband is a Shia muslim from Lucknow. But his heart lies in Utraula, the village where his family actually came from...and where he went during every summer holiday in his childhood. He's been so pampered and the family known so well that ...

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My tribute to the bravest woman in the world!

nobody@vox.com(devingel) — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:54:18 +0530

When you need to pay tribute to a woman who united the family...when you need to celebrate the life of the bravest woman in the world..Where do you go? I thought the perfect thing to do was to take the whole bunch to a place where they could be...

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Shilon - sunsets that set your senses alight

nobody@vox.com(devingel) — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:15:04 +0530

Ah Shilon...the sunsets - absolutely delicious. More than made up for the abysmal food! I loved the little pathways around the resort on which you felt like you could walk forever. The way the sunlight made the red creepers glow like christmas l...

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Gone to the puppies & redeemed by the mountains

nobody@vox.com(devingel) — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:14:36 +0530

Dharamshala...my place in the hills that I used to dream of. Where I had left a couple of memories behind when i went there in college. A best friend who wasn't a friend anymore and a friend who had changed into the best friend i never knew. Conf...

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Mandawa -- the pretend oasis of Rajasthan!

nobody@vox.com(devingel) — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:52:47 +0530

It's a little tiny town in the midst of Rajasthan. The entire 'gaon' is riddled - yes practically riddled with Havelli's. Tiny, dilapidated, grand, beautiful, ugly....all kinds! When the guide takes you into havellis where people are actually li...

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Of white waters...brilliant sunshine...and the greenest mountains you ever saw!

nobody@vox.com(devingel) — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:31:50 +0530

Imagine a soft sand beach...warm during the peak of winter..and rapidly cooling as night falls. Where in the coldest of nights, when you dig down, you can still find sand still warm from the caresses of the sun. Meandering pathways around the b...

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