this city is trippy… – burning bodies upstream from bathing sadhus, – people washing and brushing their teeth next to each other – goats, cows, people, and motorbikes all roaming through streets narrow enough that you can touch both sides if you stretch your arms out – wierd ‘babus’ walking around chanting and blessing you … Read More
Of all the things people told me about traveling around India – no one mentioned laundry. It’s crazy expensive to get someone to do it – they charge approx 50 cents an item – and since they don’t have machines anywhere, you know they’re washing them in the river…
this is the city with the famous ‘sex’ carvings on the temple – man some of them are seriously rude! I can’t even bring myself to put the pictures up on my Flickr site. Something definitely wrong with the people that made these… The city overall though is kinda crap – not much there but … Read More
Hitching Rides with Buddha ***1/2 had peaks and lows – parts that kept me really fixed and others that felt like it was just rambling. Overall though, his insight into characters was funny and it really made me want to hitchhike Japan! well just hitchhike in general. the book is great for my current trip … Read More
I’m sitting in Breach Candy Hospital – the Lonely Planet lists this as the ‘best hospital in Mumbai, perhaps even all of India’… pretty decrepit if you ask me. anyway, I got here at 4:30 in the afternoon and went straight to the Emergency room – the entrance goes directly into the room with beds … Read More
Nizams Hyderabad is full of them! everywhere you look there is a stall or shop selling bangles – I bought a bunch of them and prob got robbed blind but i had just gone to the Mecca Masjid so figured that karma was on my side. This was the first mosque I’ve gone to in … Read More
I, like others, am a little concerned with the Google-fan ideology that anything Google touches must be better, but not enough to push me to summarily choose Yahoo instead. About a week back, Fred Wilson blogged about the how Yahoo seems to try harder. I agree with him in this and in the view that … Read More
I got on my first train ride today (last-night) – three-tier sleeper. not that bad actually. There are 8-beds per cabin – two sets of 3-tier bunks on one side of the cabin and a two-tier bunk on the other side – but no doors and the walkway runs through the center of the cabin, … Read More
GandhiAshesPune Everything I read described Pune as being the cleaner, milder, summer retreat city for Bombay (Mumbai) – but i was kinda disappointed. the city seemed just as polluted, the hotels just as expensive (for worse quality), and the traffic just as congested. First night was at Hotel Ritz – not quite on the same … Read More
made me laugh a lot – maybe it is because I have been to each of the cities described in the book and that I could get the humour about each of them. kinda like six-degrees of separation crossing continents and cultures – it’s about four characters that seem unconnected struggling to fulfill their dreams. … Read More