Category Archives: India

The chronicles from India

By nistha | Published: July 20, 2010
Namaste (and this is the authen­tic one, not some ori­en­tal per­son try­ing some voodoo in Lost!) from India. Every time I come to India, peo­ple scare me or warn me about vac­ci­na­tions, water etc etc. I am yet to fall sick after eat­ing road­side pani pooris. My immune sys­tem very sweetly sup­ports every patri­otic beat of [...]
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Ghalib’s heritage endangered

By nistha | Published: December 30, 2009
Unfor­tu­nate is the land that can’t uphold it’s own legacy. To have been blessed with the affec­tions of the peer­less Mirza Ghalib is suf­fi­cient alone to make Delhi spe­cial but Delhi has decided to hand the honor over to the obliv­ion. In recent news arti­cle from TOI, the Delhi govt. or the archae­o­log­i­cal depart­ment had [...]
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a price to pay for perfection

By nistha | Published: August 18, 2008
We are in mid­dle of the Olympics and India has claimed its first and only indi­vid­ual Gold in the his­tory of games. Once in four years, Indi­ans think or try to think about sports. And there are ques­tions that you will find them rais­ing vehe­mently in cir­cle of friends or over a cup of cof­fee. [...]
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