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Stilwell Road A Trip to Amazing US Army Achievement
Stilwell Road A Trip to Amazing US Army AchievementPartha De SarkarI closed my eyes sitting in Indian Airlinesrsquo flight IC 701 to Dibrugarh from Calcutta. We were going to Stilwell Road that is within Indian side. I shut my eyes not to sleep but to take me back to Pangsau Pass on the IndoMyanamar Burma border. I could hear US Army jeeps and truc...
India Beginnings
Fear not...she's back.....Many of you have expressed concern for my travels for me personally and nervousness cause they haven't heard anything in weeks....months. No I you haven't missed a blast I simply haven't written any. This is my first email blast since MarchI left the HODR deployment on the 17th of April along with the other...
Manas National Park UNESCO Heritage Destination
Manas National Park and Bodo Village tourPartha De SarkarMarcus of Berlin working for us had just returned from the Manas National Park and had sighted tigers twice. He was full of admiration of northeast Indiarsquos beautiful mountains open wilderness flora and fauna and most importantly its colourful tribal life and of work being done by Help Tou...
The temple of lust
ldquoThe door of the historic Kamakhya temple will remain closed on Sunday morning for the Anbubachi Mela....rdquo Excellent timing again. But the rest of the Times of India report is encouraging ldquoThe door will reopen on June 25. Over six lakh devotees from across the country and abroad are likely to converge during the fourday congregation ato...
North East India
Arriving back in India was a good feeling back to the familiar where you have a vague idea of how things work. I headed up to Darjeeling an old British hill station and of course famous for its tea. It was fantastic it was cold overcast and rained lots just like home. It doesn't quite have the Victorian grandure of Shimla I was expecting bu...
A confluence missed.
From Shillong we moved rapidly southward to Silcha in Assam again. Well rapidly is a bit of mistatement Firstly we found that we couldn't get any shared jeep transport and were at a loss how to procede until a helpful local took us to a suburb of Shillong where a private bus company had an office. After hanging around for awhile we were finally...
More from Guwahati
There are some scenes you need to see to get a feel for a culture. Some beautiful some challenging.... check back here often because I'll be adding a lot here after my initial publishing...But firstBihu Festival a moment of fame and a small world.When I headed for Assam I had a vague knowledge that a festival would be happening around the time...
One of those days
Okay today definitely qualifies as one of those days where I feel like I'm going insane. What am I doing in India Blah Christmas is like 4 days away and I just want to be home and feel warm and comfortable and drink hot coffee with my family. Well anyway yesterday was my first singing class since the totally discouraging one of last week and it...
Notre sejour dans l'Assam
Hello les amis J'avais ecrit un pave et tout c'est effaceen bref tout va bienIl fait chaud env 2025 degres. Esaie va bien. Il se fait a la vie bruyante et pleine de monde ici. Il est la star il aime bien cela...Notre contact est assez occupe et voyage beaucoup. Nous n'avons donc pas vue autant de freres indiens comme nous l'esperion...
Tea Total A journey through Assam's Green Gold mines
Contrary to popular belief Assam is actually not only teeming with insurgents and tribals. There are a group of people who have a different association with Assam and swear by it the lovers of tea. The life long tea drinkers who can smell the difference between a darjeeling assam or south indian brew. In their hearts Assam holds a fond place for i...
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