By nandan on September 26, 2008
It was the first time in my life when I heard a family planning about son’s marriage. My neighbor, whose son lives in Delhi after completing the 12th class of study, wants to get him married soon. They had come to my family to ask if there is any girl in our relations. It was [...]
Posted in Women in pain | Tagged dowry system india
By nandan on September 23, 2008
I met six couchsurfing members within the past month. It was surprising for me that four of them did not know why they were traveling. They spent most of their time sleeping and relaxing in their guesthouse room. Two of them were from Germany and the other two were from the US. The German guys [...]
Posted in Travel | Tagged travel varanasi, Varanasi
By nandan on September 20, 2008
Rinki, my uncle’s daughter, is 25 years old now and her father has been looking for a groom to get her married for the past 2 years but nobody wants to marry her because she had got her heart valves operated few years ago. My uncle went to a lot of families whom he [...]
Posted in Women in pain | Tagged dowry, indian wedding, women's rights india
By nandan on September 9, 2008
Finally the tour guide exam result is declared and I passed it. The exam was held on the 26th of August, 2007 and result was declared on 7th of November, 2008, after more than a year. Government had a hard time during this one year. They were sued four times by applicants on various reasons [...]
Posted in politics | Tagged tour guide varanasi, varanasi tour
By nandan on September 1, 2008
Now it seems like situation is completely out of control. More than 4 million people are affected by flood in Bihar and Indian government is doing nothing, just nothing. I saw a lot of people fighting for food, weeping, crying, dead bodies of animals. I had never ever seen such a situation like that before. [...]
Posted in Corruption, politics | Tagged flood in Bihar