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A Four Day Bengali Wedding: Day 4
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 23 February 2011
When the last day comes, you put on your red party dress and get dolled up one last time. You put on your chandelier earrings, your gold bangles, and clip a flower in your hair. You walk into the Oberoi Grand a final time. In addition to the work-required benevolence of the hotel employees, you [...]
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A Four Day Bengali Wedding: Day 3
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 18 February 2011
We’re Going to Ibiza? With two days of a marathon wedding behind us, it was time for a day of letting loose; a day of taking off the fancy clothes and just being us. I’d enjoyed the shining Indian attire and the oos and ahs I got from locals as I made my way back [...]
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A Four Day Bengali Wedding: Day 2
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 14 February 2011
Before the Wedding Ceremony When you wear a sari, you need the correct undergarments. My pre-made petticoat fit well, but the top that was tailored for me did not. After I returned from the flower market, I dashed through the markets in the Sudder Street area until I found a vendor who carried ready made [...]
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Photo Essay: A Visit to the Howrah Flower Market in Kolkata
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 9 February 2011
I visited three cab drivers before I found one who understood where I wanted to go and knew how to get there. After a short drive, we stopped in front of what appeared to be a slum with people selling random goods in front of it. “This can’t be the right place,” I thought. The [...]
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A Four Day Bengali Wedding: Day 1
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 7 February 2011
Turmeric and Mehndi I arrived early to the Oberoi Grand on the first wedding day. While I waited, it finally occurred to me that it was fairly crazy to go halfway around the world to a wedding where I only knew the bride. Nervousness began to creep up in my stomach. After a wait that [...]
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My Two Kolkatas
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 3 February 2011
On the first day of the wedding festivities, I walked into the opulent lobby of the Oberoi Grand. Everything about it was truly grand: the chandelier hanging from the ceiling, the flower arrangement in the center, the piano, the amount of space, the way I was greeted by the employees. It was clear that there [...]
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Photo Essay: Scenes from Kolkata
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 1 February 2011
In Kolkata, I didn’t have a lot of time to wander and take pictures of the city, so I always tried to have my camera ready to capture everyday moments and sights that I found to be interesting. Most of these pictures were taken in the Sudder Street area or from the backseat of taxi [...]
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Photo Essay: Exploring the Victoria Memorial in Kolkata
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 27 January 2011
The Victoria Memorial is Kolkata’s main attraction. Architecturally, the building draws from both Indian and English aesthetics and it looks like a cross between the Taj Mahal and the White House or the Capitol Building. It’s quite a stunning building and the memorial grounds also include expansive and well-maintained gardens and lawns. Inside the memorial [...]
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You Can Check Out Anytime You Like…
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 25 January 2011
I woke up to the sounds of tinny music and movement. With my body seriously confused about what time zone it was in, I hadn’t slept much. But once I regained an awareness of the fact that I’d spent a night at the Hotel Diplomat, I got out of bed and immediately got into a [...]
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Shuddering on Sudder Street
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 19 January 2011
Indian expats, like expats from Ghana and many other countries of the global South do not travel lightly when returning to their original countries. Trips home often require bringing back extra suitcases full of goods and gifts for relatives and friends. So after making it through a slow line to clear immigration at the airport [...]
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A Guide To Gorkhaland
Blog: Quillcards - 12 April 2010
Independence and Partition Before India gained its independence, the area that is now Bangladesh was part of British-controlled India. Since independence and the partition of India into two countries (India and Pakistan) in 1947, the north east of India has only been connected to the rest of the country by a narrow ribbon of land that runs [...]A Guide To Gorkhaland is a post from: Quillcards
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In Search Of Darjeeling Tea
Blog: Quillcards - 7 April 2010
Darjeeling Tea Darjeeling in the hills of West Bengal is the center of the tea industry that can trace its roots back to the British Raj. The tea that is grown around Darjeeling is Camellia Sinensis. Yes, tea is part of the same family as the camellia flower, which is Camellia Japonica. If left to grow untrimmed, [...]In Search Of Darjeeling Tea is a post from: Quillcards
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Travels With A Macbook Air In India
Blog: Quillcards - 27 March 2010
Why Take Our Own Computer? With so many cyber-cafes in India, having your own computer is not necessary for general browsing and for emails. However, we wanted to add posts to this blog as we traveled. Because almost all of our blog posts feature photographs, that meant that we needed to be able to upload and work [...]Travels With A Macbook Air In India is a post from: Quillcards No related posts.
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Kalimpong hill station, West Bengal, India
Blog: Sherab's Photography - 23 March 2010
Kalimpong is located near Darjeeling in Lesser Himalayas. Local flower plantations are famous in all India. Kalimpong
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Japanese Peace Pagoda in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
Blog: Sherab's Photography - 25 February 2010
This stupa was inaugurated in 1992. 28,5 meters high structure was build under the guidance of Nichidatsu Fujii founder of the Nipponzan-Myōhōji Buddhist Order. It is provided for a focus for people of all races and creeds to help unite them in their search for world peace. Stairs and Peace Pagoda
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Druk Sangag Choling Monastery of Drukpa Kagyu Tradition, Seat of H.H. Gyalwang Drukchen Rinpoche, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
Blog: Sherab's Photography - 25 February 2010
Druk Sangag Choling Monastery view
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Darjeeling Tea Estates, West Bengal, India
Blog: Sherab's Photography - 14 January 2010
The champagne of all teas - Darjeeling. Due to moist, Himalayan weather local estates produce the most gourmet kind of this drink. Logo of genuine Darjeeling tea.
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Tea plantation hills covered by morning mist and clouds in Darjeeling ,West Bengal, India
Blog: Sherab's Photography - 7 December 2009
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