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Encounter with Shankaracharya - Part II - (Jan 31st, 2008)
Source of strength and solace in times of distress…...
Encounter with Shankaracharya - Part I - (Jan 24th, 2008)
My colleague's wife had not laughed in years, and suddenly all misery left her heart and she also started laughing. She felt specially blessed...
Trekking in Kodaikanal - Part II - (Jan 17th, 2008)
Next day we walked through the most significant parts of the forest, meeting enroute tall pines, aspens, huge eucalyptuses, wild flowers and berries...
Trekking in Kodaikanal - (Jan 10th, 2008)
It was in 1979, that the Government of Tamilnadu started the first trekking programme in the Hills of Ooty and Kodaikanal in collaboration with the Youth Hostel Association of India...
Trekking at badri and kedar (twenty five years ago)-II - (Jan 3rd, 2007)
The travel reminiscences carry a picturesque description of the lands as well as the human tales the author meets with.
Trekking at badri and kedar (twenty five years ago) - (Dec 27th, 2007)
When I joined the National Academy of Administration in 1972, the Academy Director Sathe was a senior officer of the Maharashtra cadre...
Anuradhapuram - (Dec 20th, 2007)
My visit to Anuradhapuram was a long cherished desire come true. I had waited all my life to have a glimpse of the Bodhi Tree...
Visit to SERENDIP - Part II - (Dec 12th, 2007)
My local host was the brother of Mr.Valsan, our Sri Lankan Deputy High Commissioner in Madras. He and his wife drove me around in Colombo,...
Visit to SERENDIP - Part I - (Dec 6th, 2007)
A visit to Sri Lanka had been my long cherished desire. The opportunity came recently when I went for a brief visit to study family planning,...
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The Lady and the Robber - (July 26th, 2007)
My mother's maternal grandfather Prasad Ram Zutshi, a Kashmiri Pandit, was born in 1860, soon after the Sepoy Mutiny....
An Austrian Wedding - 1983 - (July 19th, 2007)
My friend in Newcastle, Lesley Papworth, was about to leave on a long holiday in Austria. Lesley's sister Linda...
The Last Day in Paris - (July 12th, 2007)
Next day we walked around the Right Bank and then crossed to the old bookshops on the Left Bank...
Art, Architecture, Ambience - Paris Overwhelms - (July 5th, 2007)
Our hostel was about seven minutes' walk from the Metro station. We checked in, had a shower and left for my most dreamt-of destination - the Louvre Museum...
The Journey to Calais - (Part 2) - (June 28th, 2007)
At Calais, we caught another train for the short journey to Paris. Our companions in the compartment were a young lady and two young men...
The Journey to Calais - (Part 1) - (June 21st, 2007)
The only visit I have made to Paris so far was on Dec.1,1978. My husband was on a WHO fellowship at the Institute of Psychiatry, London...
Beauty and the Brains - Miss World 2000 - (June 14th, 2007)
The current Miss World is an Indian: Indian women have finally arrived on the international beauty scene...
Rumtek Monastery - September 1999 - (June 7th, 2007)
During the general election of 1999, I was an election observer for Sikkim...
Democracy at grass root level - (May 31st, 2007)
While on election duty in Sikkim I came across a most enchanting place called Yamthum situated in north Sikkim...
Kashmiri Panda in Haridwar - (May 24th, 2007)
After many more years, in Oct. 1999, I was invited to attend a training programme at the National Academy of Administration...
Remembering My Father - (May 17th, 2007)
On the evening we brought my father's ashes from the cremation ground to be taken to Haridwar I started crying to see my father...
My father's Ashes and Haridwar revisited - (May 10th, 2007)
My father passed away in 1986 in Madras. I undertook another journey to Haridwar with both my little children to perform my own duty...
Many visits to Haridwar - (May 3rd, 2007)
My first visit to Haridwar took place in the year 1972. I was a trainee officer at the Mussoorie National Academy of Administration...
Dil Bahadur Thapa - Our Man Friday - (April 26th, 2007)
When I went to Mussoorie as Trainee Officer in 1972, I shared a room in a New Block in Happy Valley, with Sudha Sinha now Sudha Anchalia...
Ganju Lama - October 1999 - (April 19th, 2007)
During my election duty in Sikkim on the very last day of my stay I was fortunate to meet Ganju Lama...
Madras Engineers at Nathula Pass - (April 12th, 2007)
Last week I mentioned about my visit to Nathula Pass which I visited while I had gone for election duty to Sikkim...
Nathula Pass - (April 5th, 2007)
While in Sikkim on election duty, I had the unique opportunity to visit the Nathula pass where some of the highest Indian...
My Last Day In Karachi An Officer's Diary - (March 30th, 2007)
As promised by the Commissioner Sahib, next day promptly at eight in the morning...
Eating and meeting in Karachi - (March 22nd, 2007)
On the very first day of my visit I had a taste of the exotic Karachi cuisine in the house of Sait family...
Women In Pakistan - (March 15th, 2007)
Women are at various levels of development in Pakistan which is not very dissimilar to India.....
Exploring Karachi - (March 8th, 2007)
I began my exploration of Karachi escorted by the Sait family by visiting the Musoleum of Kaide Azam Mohammed Ali Zinnah....
A Madrasi in Karachi - Oct. 1991 - (March 1st, 2007)
My mother first visited Karachi when she was about ten years old. Her father was posted as a Forest Officer with headquarters at Muzzaffarabad....
A Village Lad becomes Vice Chancellor (Part II) - (Feb 22nd, 2007)
Last week I said that a turning point in Dr. Kalanidhi’s life was joining the A.C. College of Technology (A.C. Tech.) in Madras, as a lecturer,...
A Village Lad becomes Vice Chancellor - (Feb 15th, 2007)
Dr. Kalanidhi was born in the year 1948 in a small village called Punjai Pughulur, near Karur, where the hundred-year-old house in which he was born,...
The woman of the millennium - (Feb 8th, 2007)
Mrs. Gandhi being elected woman of the millennium is a matter of great satisfaction to every Indian and my mind...
A jackpot for all - (Feb 1st, 2007)
Sikkim, the erstwhile Himalayan Kingdom, is well known in Tamil Nadu for its lotteries...
The smartest Black Cats in the Country - (Jan 25th, 2007)
During the General Election of 1999, I was posted to Sikkim as an election observer....
My Candidate - (Jan 18th, 2007)
During May 1996, I was posted as an election observer in the Jhunjhunu Parliamentary constituency in Rajasthan....
Washing Clothes for Victor Banerjee - (Jan 4th, 2007)
The Schizophrenia Foundation of India (SCARF) was started in 1984 by a group of psychiatrists and social workers,....
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