epub |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Ved Mehta [Mehta, Ved]

Tibet Tibet, which is a four-hundred-and-seventy-thousand-square-mile plateau at an altitude varying from twelve thousand to twenty-four thousand feet—one of the highest elevations in the world—lies between the Himalayan and Kunlun ...

epub |eng | 2017-07-03 | Author:Mihir Bose [Bose, Mihir]

It may happen, but at the same time you have to take people along. You have to give them hope. If by now India had ensured equality of opportunity for ...

epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Robert H. (Robert Henry) Elliot [Elliot, Robert H.]

* * * NOTE.—With the view of obtaining information I briefly allude here to two points with reference to caste and its effects—the (1) curious custom of the Marasa Wokul ...

epub |eng | 2001-01-15 | Author:Nicola Naylor & Kate Adie

COCHIN: A FAMILY OF THE PLANTATIONS Slowly, we chugged our way through the waterways of the coastal countryside. As elsewhere in Kerala, the vegetation on the islands and banks on ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Tom Chesshyre

The ferry passengers quickly dispersed and I found myself rolling my bag towards a little customer-less café next to a picnic area with a lawn. A man was slumped half ...

epub |eng | 2010-06-25 | Author:Cheryl Bentley [Bentley, Cheryl]

Shikarbadi Hotel In Maharana Bhagwat Singh's days a trip to Shikarbadi, his. hunting lodge, was a time of roughing it. Although only 5 km from Udaipur, the area was covered ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-04 | Author:Piers Moore Ede [Ede, Piers Moore]

The state of the Ganga began to occupy a lot of my thoughts. How had things become so bad? Was anything being done to change them? Were the Hindu leaders, ...

epub |eng | 2022-03-10 | Author:Harriet Steel [Steel, Harriet]

*** They left the hotel an hour later but were only halfway to the car when Jane realised that she had forgotten her hat. As he waited on the drive, ...

epub |eng | 2021-02-22 | Author:Suhas Munshi [Munshi, Suhas]

It is probably due to the Kashmiri’s inaptitude for active amusement that the strolling players, the Band or Bhaggat, have such a hold on the people. These players, who are ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2018-06-05 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

OCTOBER 24 A cold wind out of the north. I wash my head. To reduce the drain on our food supplies, Tukten and Gyaltsen leave today for Jumla, where they ...

pdf | | 2013-09-24 | Author:Manorama

pdf | | 2021-12-17 | Author:Unknown

epub |eng | 2000-05-01 | Author:Alexander Frater [Frater, Alexander]

In the Indian Post a report dated 9 June said, ‘The South-West monsoon has advanced towards Greater Bombay, according to a city weather bureau report this evening, which means rains ...

epub |eng | 2016-06-27 | Author:Laura Pedersen

Down South India has forty-seven hundred miles of coastline and the South is the place to enjoy lolling on white sand beaches and canoeing through tropical rainforests that haven’t changed ...

epub |eng | 2002-04-19 | Author:Sarah Macdonald

Jonathan and I awake to the smell of smouldering bonfires, the sounds of screams and the telephone. Simi and Vivek are calling to invite us around. ‘Wear something old and ...