By nandan on August 10, 2010
I recently worked with a travel agency as a mute guide with an Italian group. Actually the group already had an escort who knew Benares very well but he did not have a tourist guide license so I was hired just to be with the group as their mute guide. I had already worked with [...]
Posted in Business, Travel, Varanasi | Tagged tour escort, tour package India, tour package of Varanasi, tourist guide varanasi, travel agency india, Varanasi
By nandan on July 31, 2010
I returned from a trip to Jammu & Kashmir state a few days ago. Although my trip was not successful because the police stopped us from entering into Kashmir valley because of the bad weather and violence there but I was not regret as I got to talk with the locals and Indian Army about [...]
Posted in Corruption, Politics, Terrorism, Travel | Tagged Amarnath temple, Hindu-Muslim tension, Kashmir, terrorism in India
By nandan on July 20, 2010
My family brought a parrot a few days ago but when I see him, I got seriously upset because I do not like to see birds in a cage. I believe that they are made to fly, not to be stuck in a small crazy cage. I decided to let him fly back into the [...]
Posted in Animal rights | Tagged Animal rights, parrot food, parrots, parrots cage, parrots cage size
By nandan on July 10, 2010
I got to attend Kolkata gay pride as well which was on the 2nd of July. I arrived in Kolkata on the 1st of July after attending the Chennai pride and spending a few days in Bangalore. My friend Sourendra from Mumbai had introduced me to Mr. Rajshrei Chakrobarty who was Secretary of Dum Dum [...]
Posted in Business, Gay culture in India | Tagged gay India, kolkata, Kolkata gay pride 2010, Rainbow pride Kolkata 2010
By nandan on July 5, 2010
It was the first time when I visited Shimla and I was so excited for this visit as I was going for vacations after a really long time and heat was just killing me in Varanasi and the weather was really nice in Himanchal Pradesh. We took an overnight train from Varanasi to Delhi first [...]
Posted in Travel | Tagged . car rental Shimla, guest house shimla, himanchal pradesh, hotel shimla, Shimla, travel agents shimla
By nandan on June 28, 2010
It was Chennai gay pride yesterday on the 27th of June and I came to attend the festival. This festival was not as big as I was expecting it to be but big enough to bring attention of local people and make them aware about something called “gay”. I was expecting for at least 1000-2000 [...]
Posted in Business, Gay culture in India, Travel | Tagged chennai gay pride 2010, gay chennai, gay culture india, indian gay parades
By nandan on May 20, 2010
I worked with a journalist named Bart Spellers from Holland who was writing an article about the Coke issue in India. He wanted to visit all the disputed Coke sites in India including Mehdiganj, Varanasi and I worked with him in Varanasi as his local assistant and translator. I also look for an opportunity of [...]
Posted in Studies in India | Tagged Coke issue varanasi, coke mehdiganj, research assistant varanasi, tour guide varanasi, translator varanasi, Varanasi
By nandan on May 15, 2010
It was my US visa interview at US embassy, New Delhi and it was refused which I was just not hoping for. I and other people who were supporting my trip were almost sure that I will get the visa. I had four sponsorship letters, my sponsor’s bank account papers, my own documents but the [...]
Posted in Business, Travel | Tagged American visa, B1/B2 visa, tourist visa to America, US embassy new delhi, USA visa
By nandan on May 8, 2010
I applied for my US visa a few days ago but it didn’t seem as easy as I had thought. Some things were very nice but I did not like a few things at all. First of all I had to deposit the visa fee and the good thing was that US embassy in India [...]
Posted in Corruption | Tagged US B1/B2 visa, US non-immigrant visa, US visa, US visa booking
By nandan on May 5, 2010
I recently learnt something really interesting- the religious idea behind women having their menstrual cycle. I tried to learn about it because I often hear about women considered as impure during their menstrual cycle and a lot of crazy ideas associated with it. The religious reasons I found behind women considered impure during their menstrual [...]
Posted in Hindu culture, Women in pain | Tagged hindu women, Hinduism, indian women, menstrual cycle, monthly periods, women body, women rights
