2007
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By nandan on December 30, 2007
I worked with two American girls, Maria and Olena, as their tour guide in Benares. They contacted me through my apartment add on craigslist. It was the first time when I was asked to arrange a tour of Benares. It was very exciting for me because I always wanted to work in tourism sector. Maria [...]
Posted in Business, Groovy Ganges Guest House | Tagged family stay varanasi, guest house varanasi, home stay varanasi, tour guide varanasi, tour varanasi, Varanasi
By nandan on December 20, 2007
I had a tenant from DC named Nick Chang. He was a Taiwanese but had green card of USA. He was a software Engineer. He was a Buddhist and wanted to visit few Buddhist sites in India. He wanted to visit Sarnath so I suggested him to hire a auto rickshaw for round trip. But [...]
Posted in Groovy Ganges Guest House | Tagged guest house varanasi, Prostitution in Varanasi
By nandan on December 10, 2007
A girl from Colorado named Erin wrote me to meet in Varanasi. She was friend of Krista whom I had work with in Benares. Erin came up with her one other Czechoslovakian friend named Katerina. Erin was a social activist and Katerina was a student. Erin works with a NGO that works for homeless people. [...]
Posted in Groovy Ganges Guest House, Hindu culture | Tagged guest house varanasi, indian wedding
By nandan on November 5, 2007
It was Nagnathiya today and CBC guys were in Varanasi to start shooting for their documentary called Myths and Might. Mr. Shubhranshu Chowdhary called me to inform about it. I had already helped him in researching for characters. I met them at Veer Bhadra Mishra’s house who organizes this play in Benares. There was huge [...]
Posted in Business, Studies in India | Tagged cremation varanasi, doams, documentary shooting, funeral varanasi, research assistant varanasi, translator varanasi
By nandan on October 7, 2007
My brother was working with MTV Italy as Italian interpreter asked me if I would assist them in Benares and Allahabad. They were making a documentary called Camminando which was joint production of MTV Italy and LA 7 (Channel 7). They were in Lucknow when they contacted me and their next stop was Allahabad where [...]
Posted in Business, Studies in India | Tagged aghori, documentary filming varanasi, research assistant varanasi, translator varanasi, Varanasi
By nandan on September 15, 2007
After waiting for 9 months Ministry of Tourism organized tour guide exam in August but they didn’t want everyone to participate in the exam so they sent a letter to all the applicants before one week of exam saying to deposit domicile certificate issued by court in Gwalior which was just next to impossible because [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged tour guide varanasi
By nandan on August 28, 2007
India is going to host commonwealth games in 2010 and Indian Government wants to prepare 1000 tour guides for that event. I had also applied to get a tour guide license for North India last year in November. I was supposed to participate in a written exam and if I qualify that then a interview [...]
Posted in Corruption, Studies in India | Tagged tour guide in Varanasi, Varanasi
By nandan on August 10, 2007
Nandlal called me to ask about Doams (people who work at cremation place) in Varanasi. He told me that his friend is in Varanasi nowadays and wants to make a documentary about Doam’s life. Since I live near the Ghats and I have lots of friends who live along the ghats, it was easy for [...]
Posted in Business, Studies in India | Tagged CBC documentary varanasi, cremation in varanasi, documentary filming assistance varanasi, research assistant varanasi, translator varanasi
By nandan on July 10, 2007
Coca-Cola came to India in the year 1956. Since India had not any foreign exchange act, Coca-Cola made huge money operating under 100% foreign equity. Indian foreign exchange act was implemented in the year 1974 during Indra Gandhi time. The foreign exchange act stated that foreign companies selling consumer goods must invest 40% of its [...]
Posted in Politics, Studies in India | Tagged coca-cola india, coke issue india, mehndiganj issue
By nandan on July 10, 2007
I worked with a Law Researcher from University of London as Assistant and translator. He was interested in legal perspective of Coke issue. He had already lived in India for more than a year therefore he knew a little bit of Hindi but not good enough to interview people. He is president of an NGO [...]
Posted in Business, Coca-Cola, Corruption, Studies in India | Tagged coke issue india, mehndiganj, research assistant varanasi, translation services varanasi, translator varanasi
