Travelblog (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
I love Varanasi So far being here has been the best part of my entire trip since I left America and that's including my time spent on the island Koh Samui in Thailand. Varanasi is such a magical place that has so much to offer and entirely too much to do. When we first planned our whole trip and I saw that Cami had us stationed in Varanasi for 10 days I kinda freaked out thinking...
DoughStreet.com (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Varanasi hellip The dirtiest most unabashed unsanitary place I have ever seen been or heard of. BUT one of those places which you can tell can grow on you hellip kind of. My first day in Varanasi can only be described as trippy in that nothing from where I am from could prepare me for [...]
Mahamondo (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
There is no Divinity or Liberation in terrorism & violence. Via ml1 is this vid of an Aarti Puja in Varanasi to counter the darkness of these forces -
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
We arrived in India overland on the 13th of November we caught a bus to Gorekpore and then an overnight train to Varanasi.Varanasi is a holy place for Hindu people the river ganges is to them the most holy in the world they bath here was their clothes pray here and burn their dead. While we were there we stayed right near the river with ganges views from our rooftop restaurant while we...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
A lot has happened since I last wrote but all good things thankfully. We made it to Varanasi by train with no problems at all. The train is actually pretty confusing considering they make plenty of stops along the way in different city's to pick up and drop off people and make no announcments which city they are now stopping or stopped at. Luckily for us I happened to ask a man which stop
360 Cities (Free subscription) | yesterday
... 996 km awayAfter having adjusted to the culture shock of Kathmandu in Nepal, the old city of Varanasi was on another level entirely. Complete sensory overload, with the 996 km awayAfter having adjusted to the culture shock of Kathmandu in Nepal, the old city of Varanasi was on another level entirely. Complete sensory overload, with the 996 km awayThe bustle of life at one of the bathing...
360 Cities (Free subscription) | yesterday
... 995 km awayAfter having adjusted to the culture shock of Kathmandu in Nepal, the old city of Varanasi was on another level entirely. Complete sensory overload, with the 995 km awayAfter having adjusted to the culture shock of Kathmandu in Nepal, the old city of Varanasi was on another level entirely. Complete sensory overload, with the 995 km awayThe bustle of life at one of the bathing...
360 Cities (Free subscription) | yesterday
... 995 km awayAfter having adjusted to the culture shock of Kathmandu in Nepal, the old city of Varanasi was on another level entirely. Complete sensory overload, with the 995 km awayAfter having adjusted to the culture shock of Kathmandu in Nepal, the old city of Varanasi was on another level entirely. Complete sensory overload, with the 995 km awayThe bustle of life at one of the bathing...
Times of India (Free subscription) | yesterday
... line with this, the security has also been beefed up at all sensitive places, including Ayodhya, Varanasi, Mathura and Agra. Besides, top priority is being accorded to the police modernisation by replacing the outdated 3'O'3 rifles with AK-47 and other automotive weapons and strengthening the commando force by increasing their number to minimum 2000 in the state. "The paucity of fund will...
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... at two other shrines facing a terrorist threat – the Gyanvapi mosque-Shiva temple complex in Varanasi and the Krishna Janmabhoomi temple in Mathura. A “high alert” has been sounded at all three places after intelligence reports that they could become terror targets on December 6.“We are taking no chances,” additional DG (law and order) Brij Lal told DNA. “We are not waiting for intelligence...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Okay...just checking in before me and Colin embark on our journey to Sarnath where we won't have access to internet because we will be undergoing our intensive brain enemas ugh.So fun stuff is happening here in Varanasi and I am actually feeling more tolerant of and affectionate towards India and its absurd mass of people. due to the soothing effects of yoga. Of course the blissful feelin
rediff News (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... experience at the Cafe Leopold. "It is my brother's wedding next week and four of us were to go to Varanasi for that. We never knew that we would land up here (at the hospital) when we left our homes for shopping in Colaba," said Anamika who is severely injured with three bullets in her stomach and one in her leg.Rashika and I were at the Citywalk purchasing footwear while Meenakshi and...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... a guardian at the age of 11, when his adoptive father died. He studied law at Udai Pratap College, Varanasi, and later physics at Fergusson College, Pune, with an eye towards becoming a nuclear scientist and joining India's atomic energy research centre in Mumbai. However, he gave up his studies for politics.One of his first political acts was to give large tracts of fertile land to the...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... a guardian at the age of 11, when his adoptive father died. He studied law at Udai Pratap College, Varanasi, and later physics at Fergusson College, Pune, with an eye towards becoming a nuclear scientist and joining India's atomic energy research centre in Mumbai. However, he gave up his studies for politics.One of his first political acts was to give large tracts of fertile land to the...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... into the hotel on November 2. They had returned to the hotel on Sunday after a long trip to Varanasi and were scheduled to check out in the evening.
