By nandan on October 25, 2009
I came in contact with a Hungarian guy, Attila, who is a computer engineer in Hungary and volunteers for a Hungarian NGO (www.afroaid.hu). This NGO runs a child sponsorship program in Africa. Attila wanted to volunteer in Varanasi. He wanted to come to India next year with his wife for a year and was interested [...]
Posted in Business, Varanasi | Tagged bonded laborers, child adaptation india, child laborers, chlid adaptation in varanasi, Varanasi, volunteer
By nandan on October 20, 2009
I hosted a few new guests at my guest house and it was the first time when I had some problem with my guest and my guest had problems with me, my family and my guest house. A French girl contacted me for housing through my ad somewhere online. We shared a few e-mails and [...]
Posted in Groovy Ganges Guest House | Tagged guest house varanasi, hostel varanasi
By nandan on October 15, 2009
I am hosting a FulBright scholar, Megan, who is doing her research from University of Pittsburgh. Her research topic is tawayaf culture. She has rented a whole flat and will stay till June 2010. We discussed a few things about tawayaf culture in Varanasi. I already knew that Lucknow was the most famous place of [...]
Posted in Groovy Ganges Guest House, Hindu culture | Tagged red light district varanasi, Tawayaf, Varanasi
By nandan on October 10, 2009
I attended Mumbai gay pride on the 16th of August. It is celebrated on this particular date because the gay community organizing this event says that India got freedom on the 15th of August but gay community never got freedom so they decided to celebrate their freedom one day after the independence day of India. [...]
Posted in Business, Gay culture in India | Tagged gay culture india, mumbai gay pride 2009, section 377
By nandan on October 5, 2009
I lived in JNU for two days with my Muslim friend. His brother and cousin are also student at JNU and they also live here in the hostel. They told me a really crazy story. They said that when they were in Aligarh Muslim University a few years back, once all the students were called [...]
Posted in politics | Tagged islam, sunita willams, sunita williams converted to islam
By nandan on October 3, 2009
I made a lot of new friends while living in Gwalior for the tour guide training and two of them were Muslims. Actually I shared an apartment with one them. He is a doctoral student from JNU. Basically he is from a very small village in Bihar’s Sitamarhi district. He did his schooling from a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged islam, music in islam, muslim wedding
By nandan on October 1, 2009
After completing the classroom teaching and orientation tour, now I am supposed to do field work for two months in my local town. I wanted to choose the subject LGBT tourism because nobody has done it before in India and it was a good opportunity for me to relate my NGO and the research I [...]
Posted in Business, Studies in India, Varanasi | Tagged tour guide varanasi, tour varanasi, Varanasi