TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India more to come!
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India the few pics i took in varanasi... more to come
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Varanasi, India We wait an hour for our food to arrive at Brown Bread Bakery. Our waiter, we're told later, left to run an errand. Leah very unwell, retches near the end of our meal, and I reluctantly agree to escort her to the hospital. This I don't want to do first because it is a waste of an entire day (forgive me!) and second because I have no natural...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Varanasi, India I wake before Leah and walk out the room with a foolish plan to go back to the main burning ghats to get our money back from the touts who ripped us off two days before. I've been stewing about it since then. It is already ten when I arrive at the river, but the ghats are empty. A few husband and wife teams of laundry-wallah are drying...
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Varanasi, India A night so hot I barely register the mosquitoes. We lie under a fan and roll in our sleep to keep from sweating through the mattress. Leah emits intermittent murmurs about air-conditioning. In the morning, I leave early to meet Viki, the boy in the corner store down the road. I've been thinking of writing an article on the dairy industry...
Timpu (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Varanasi, Jul 18: Silk industry in Varanasi is trying to regain foothold in international markets as China imposes restrictions on the export of silk products. China has reportedly imposed restrictions on the export of silk products as the recent earthquake in Sichuan province destroyed the majority of mulberry gardens in the area and China is [...]
Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Varanasi: Lakhs of devotees from across the country are expected to visit the famous Kashi Vishwanath temple during the ‘Shrawan’ festival. “Over twenty lakh devotees from across the country are expected to throng ...
Pakistan News (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... Mehta is all set to raise fundamentalists’ hackles as she did when she tried to make “Water” in Varanasi 10 years ago. The film had to be finally shot in Sri Lanka much later with a completely different cast. It’s doubtful whether Mehta will be allowed to shoot the movie in actual locations. “One has to be fearless and true to one’s vision. Otherwise there’s no point in writing books or...
Times of India (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... Malharpaar locality in Gorakhpur. Brijesh is presently in jail after his arrest by the police in Varanasi with a huge haul of contraband. The accused, though claimed that the seized contraband was smuggled from across the Indian borders and was originally from Afghanistan, the STF was yet to establish these claims. Sources in STF said that efforts were on to connect and track the entire...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
... major cities in the country that will see the total eclipse are Surat, Indore, Bhopal, Jabalpur, Varanasi and Patna. Other parts of India, including Bangalore, will see at least a partial eclipse, he says.
Liberal Bureaucracy (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Catholics have Lourdes or Santiago de Compostela, Anglicans have Canterbury and Hindus have Varanasi, all of which are perfectly charming, I'm sure. Liberal Democrats have Hebden Bridge, the font of cutting-edge campaigning ideas since Tony Greaves was a lad.I've only been there once, nearly twenty years ago for a LYMEC seminar on Tourism. The sun shone, the Timothy Taylor's Landlord was perfect,...
Times of India (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
... in his quarter. He was brought to Sadar Hospital, Rohtas but the doctor there referred him to Varanasi. He died on Friday morning while on way to Varanasi. However, the circle officer claimed that Dipak Ram got sustenance allowance in June, 2008. The family members, however, alleged that the deceased had already deposited the so called embezzled amount, despite which he was harassed...
Alertnet (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
... by suspected Islamist militants on cities outside Kashmir, including Mumbai, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Varanasi, and in May, Jaipur.Pakistan has denied a hand in these attacks, and for its part is suspicious of the role of Indian consulates in Afghanistan.Senior Pakistani military officers and bureaucrats privately accuse India of helping separatists wage a low-level insurgency in the western...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
... planned He said this would be followed by rallies with the first public meeting to be held in Varanasi on August 28 and the second in Ghaziabad on September 2. He said rallies are proposed to be held in Meerut, Agra, Aligarh, Moradabad, Bareilly, Gonda and Gorakhpur.From August 15 to October 15, booth-level workers’ conference will be held in all the 80 Lok Sabha constituencies in the State,...
