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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 January 1, 2010
I finally got my tour guide license on the 30th after three years of wait because I had applied for it in the year 2006. I started preparing for the entrance exam after applying for the license in 2006 and continued it for a few months but finally I stopped because the tour guide association [...]
Posted in Business, Studies in India | Tagged tour guide india, tour guide varanasi, tour india, tour varanasi, Varanasi
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
By nandan on September 28, 2009
The seventh week of the guide training program is done which was the orientation tour of Agra>Jaipur>Delhi. Our first city was Agra where we visited four monuments- Taj Mahal, Red fort, Sikandara (Tomb of Akbar the Great) and Itmad Ud Daula. We had one guide for fifty participants. Agra was a crazy city. The water [...]
Posted in Business, Studies in India | Tagged tour guide india, tour guide varanasi, tour india, tour varanasi
By nandan on September 6, 2009
The fourth week of the training is completed now so only two weeks to go and then I will head for the one week of tour of Delhi, Agra and Jaipur and then finally to Benares for my field work. This week was also very interesting as we had a few very nice lecturers and [...]
Posted in Business, Studies in India | Tagged tour guide varanasi, tour india, tour varanasi
By nandan on August 9, 2009
I arrived in Gwalior today to attend the tour guide training program. Since the institute had informed me about the training only 10 days ago, I could not organize my stay in Gwalior. I just arrived here, went to a dharamshala and hired a room for today. I had contacted my one friend in Delhi [...]
Posted in Studies in India | Tagged tour guide india, tour guide training program, tour guide varanasi
By nandan on October 15, 2008
Now there is a problem again with the tour guide training program, which was supposed to start on October 6th. Now the Guide Association of Jaipur has sued the government for organizing the tour guide training program for only 45 days. They say that the government should again organize this program for four months, as [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged tour guide india, tour guide training program, tour guide varanasi
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 August 22, 2008
I worked with Gianni and Marco, two Italians, as their tour guide in Benares from 19th to 21st. They contacted me through Giona, the Italian guy I had worked with last week. Gianni works in Event sector and Marco was a Architect. They were staying in Ganges Views Hotel at Assi ghat.
They had only two [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged guest house varanasi, tour guide india, tour guide varanasi, Varanasi, varanasi tour
By nandan on August 10, 2008
I worked with a Italian guy named Giona Peduzzi. He contacted me first on couchsurfing asking to meet for a drink. We sent a lot of emails to each other discussing about tour of India and finally he told me arrange his tour of Banaras. He lives in Rome and works for Channel 5, the [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged guest house varanasi, Sadhu, Sanyasi, tour guide india, tour guide varanasi, Varanasi, varanasi tour