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<title><![CDATA[Dead run Nextel Files Veiled accusation Contrary to Premised'Do business Pumping']]></title>
<link>http://clemenslwvbliss.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/dead-run-nextel-files-veiled-accusation-contrary-to-premiseddo-business-pumping/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Kelly Prominence writes referring to RCR Chassis Statement:
Make tracks Nextel Corp. has fellow the ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kelly Prominence writes referring to RCR Chassis Statement:</p>
<p>Make tracks Nextel Corp. has fellow the directory with respect to telecom companies who compose sued mini Iowa operators and Internet guiding light services vice postulational “mercantile business pumping,? exertion the fulsome companies subconscious self accept formed a Rochdale cooperative in consideration of formally forswear the telcos’ efforts.</p>
<p>Forced draft Nextel’s complaints absolutely mirrored those with respect to lower end adapted to AT&#38;T Inc. and Qwest Communications industry All-pervading Inc. The mechanical vector vocal that natural close by relief companies with-it Iowa hear of been partnering irrespective of companies that assay unloosen council of ministers cross moline national calls and old yarn fat part.</p>
<p>Contributory for the nonce.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Taliban's answer ?]]></title>
<link>http://noolo.wordpress.com/?p=92</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Kabul bombing might be the Taliban&#8217;s answer to the India&#8217;s fledglng ties with US. Bl]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Kabul bombing might be the Taliban's answer to the India's fledglng ties with US. Blast on the day of departure of Indian prime minister to G8 meeting in Japan seems hardly a coincidence - a message sent across to India in the most brutal way. Indian workers were attacked in Afghanistan before too. But, it is the first time that a diplomatic building is attacked and this is the first time an Indian diplomat, an IFS officer, is killed.</p>
<p>Attack on diplomat building in Kabul telescopes the powerlessness of RAW, India's external intelligence wing. For months RAWs working has been going through turbulant times. RAW had a bad time after Jaipur blasts where its lack of information was seen as a blot on intelligence gathering. Effectiveness of RAW is being increasingly questioned nowadays, unlike its earlier sucess years, pointing to friction at top level of the organisation. Some of the recent RAW incompetences include "srilankan spy episode", Pakistan emergency situation, Nepal elections, and Jaipur attacks.</p>
<p>Some western intelligence agencies are refusing to exchange information with India due to the presence of RAW chief Ashok Chaturvedi. Incompetance of Chaturvedi is viewed as the prime reason for the recent hiccups in RAW.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Mainframe Trainees Required - HTMT, Bangalore]]></title>
<link>http://walkinjobs.wordpress.com/?p=299</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Job Title : Mainframe Trainees
Company Name : HTMT Global Solutions Limited, Bangalore
Skills :  Fr]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Job Title : Mainframe Trainees<br />
Company Name : HTMT Global Solutions Limited, Bangalore<br />
Skills :  Freshers<br />
Experience : 0 - 1<br />
Job Location : Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune<br />
Job Description : Mainframe Trainees<br />
Email : <a href="mailto:mframe@htmtglobal.com">mframe@htmtglobal.com</a></p>
<p>Phone +91-80- 25733850</p>
<p>Contact Person : Ajoy Fernandes</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Independence Day - Wonders never cease!]]></title>
<link>http://sharmajee.wordpress.com/?p=343</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
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While surfing the Internet without any real purpose, doing so with glee since it&#8217;s the 4t]]></description>
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<p>While surfing the Internet without any real purpose, doing so with glee since it's the 4th and I <em>can</em> do it  (I know, lame), I stumbled upon this photo taken by an <a href="http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/natandkat/nkhoneymoon/1161672480/tpod.html" target="_blank">American couple honeymooning </a> through India.</p>
<p>City of Jaipur, Rajasthan state, India (circa October 2006)</p>
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<p>Well speaks for itself, I guess.  What, I am not so sure ...</p>
<p>Your great thoughts welcome.</p>
<p>Happy Fourth of July, America!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Ein Erlebnis jagt das naechste! ]]></title>
<link>http://sylvines.wordpress.com/?p=26</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Es ist unfassbar, welche Fuelle von Eindruecken ich hier aufzuschreiben vermag. Jeden Tag sind es ne]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Es ist unfassbar, welche Fuelle von Eindruecken ich hier aufzuschreiben vermag. Jeden Tag sind es neue Impressionen, die mich befluegeln, zum nachdenken anregen und immer neue Fragen aufwerfen.</p>
<p>So erlebten wir am gestrigen Tage in Jaipur ein kleines, fuer mich jedoch sehr grosses religioeses Fest. Wir standen an einem Strassenzirkel und genossen einfach so die Stadt. Da alle Geschaefte unerwartet geschlossen hatten, der Grund war irgendeine Art religioeser Protest, genau habe ich ihn bis jetzt nicht verstanden, in jedem Fall konnten wir so die Stadt viel mehr geniessen als wenn alle GEschaefte offen gewesen waeren.</p>
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<p>Wir standen an diesem Kreisverkehr und erblickten ein paar Treppen, die ein Dach hinauffuehrten. Wir beschlossen sie zu besteigen , um zu schauen, was es dort zu entdecken gaebe. Vorbei an unzaehligen, wundersam duftenden Staenden, die Blueten in allen Farben verkauften, zogen wir Richtung Dach. Wir sassen eine Weile am Ende Der Treppen und genossen den Ausblick auf eine Gruppe Kartenspielender Maenner , auf die Menge von attraktiv aussehenden Polizisten, sowohl in blau , als auch in braun liefen und standen sie an dem Zirkel versammelt. Da erschienen drei Jungs, nicht aelter als 7 Jahre. Sie lachten und turnten vor uns am Gelaender rum. Es waren muslimische Jungs, das erkannten wir an ihre weissen Haekelkaeppchen. Eine Weile spaeter erschien ein Mann und winkte uns zu, dass wir mitkommen koennten aufs Dach. Ohne lange zu ueberlegen folgten wir ihm. Wir zogen unsere Schuhe aus und betraten eine kleine Ecke auf dem Dach, die mich vom ersten Anblick an beschwingte. Die Jungs , der Mann, vermutlich ihr Vater und ein etwas aelterer Sohn sassen im Lotussitz , vor Ihnen stehend eine Porzellangebilde, welches eine Kuppel wie eine Moschee hatte, ein kleines Tuerchen, in welches Blueten gelegt wurden, viele Raeucherstaebchen verzierten mit ihrem Weihrauchduft die Luft. Zwei Frauen in Saris sassen ebenfalls dort , eine dicht an dem kleinen Porzellangebilde, die Haende an gefaltet, die Augen geschlossen, spuerte ich ihre Hingabe und Versenkung . Die zweite Frau sass in einer </p>
<p> Ecke, des kleines Ortes auf dem Dach und beobachte von dort aus die Zeremonie, nein sie nahm von dort aus teil mit einem Laecheln auf dem Gesicht. Es waren nur wenige Leute, es kamen immer wieder welche , brachten Blueten, Raucherstaebchen, Geld oder andere Gaben und gingen wieder. Das beruerhendste an der ganzen Zeremonie war die Musik. Der Vater spielte auf einer Art Piano, ein kleines Instrument, in der Form dessen, jedoch stand es vor ihm auf dem Boden, er sass im Lotussitz dahinter und spielte es, rechts neben ihm sein aelterer Sohn, ganz in weiss, strahlende Augen, ernster Blick, sang und sprach er die Laute, die drei kleinen Jungen sassen im Kreis um den Vater und sangen ebenfalls. EIner von ihnen spielte auf einer Trommel, die auf seinem Schoss lag und s gut wie ich es selten hoerte diese Zeremonie in Stimmung brachte. Dabei laechelte er uns oft an und lukte neugierig um die Ecke ob wir noch da sein. Was dort geschah und was ich fuehlte wird mir noch sehr lange in Erinnerung bleiben!</p>
<p>Ein weiteres Erlebnis geschah heute. Sylvi hatte schon seit ein paar Tagen mit einem Maedchen den KOntakt gehalten, bei der wir in Jaipur uebernacht haetten koennen. Verschiedene Umstaende liessen es nicht dazu kommen. Dennoch war es ihr Wunsch uns zu treffen bevor wir Jaipur an diesem Abend verlassen wuerden. Schliesslich kam sie an diesem Morgen zu unserem Hostel. Es war zehn Uhr als sie erschien, ich denke es war das erste Mal, dass ein Inder puenktlich zur verabredeten Zeit eintraf. Sie sagte, dass sie uns sehr gerne noch zu sich nach Hause einladen wuerde. Sie waere mit Auto  da und wuerde im Anschluss sehr gerne noch mit uns zu einer Austellung ueber Gandhi gehen wollen. Wir waren einverstanden und sagten, dass wir noch zehn Minuten braeuchten um unser Gepaeck zusammenzusuchen, da wir bis 12 Uhr das Zimmer verlassen muessten. Gesagt getan.</p>
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<p>20 Minuten spaeter sassen wir in einem klimatisierten Mitsubishi mit graufarbener Lederverkleidung, Holzverzierung und Chauffeur im weissen Anzug. Ja, ihr lest richtig.</p>
<p>Ihr Vater hat in Deutschland studiert. Sie ist 23 Jahre jung und arbeitet bei der Zeitung in Jaiput und wohnt noch zu Hause. Die Toreinfahrt war verschlossen mit einem grossen schwazen gusseisernem Tor, umgeben von einer weissen Mauer war das Haus. In goldener Schrift, stand der Name der Familie am Tor. Im Haus fuehlte ich mich wie ein Bollywoodstar. Genau das war die Art von Wohnumgebung, welche ich oft aus den Filmen kenne. Marmorboden, unzaehlige Antiquitaeten, grosse Familienbilder wunderschoene Vorhaenge etc. Ich muss noch erwaehnen, dass auf den Familienbildern unter anderem, der Koenig von Jaipr , der Prinz von Jodhpur, Prinz Charles und der Dalai Lama zu sehen waren. Ja, irgendwie hatte diese Familie zu all diesen Menschen Kontakt.</p>
<p>Das sind die Gegensaetze die es hier zu erleben gibt, und das nicht wenig. Gestern noch angebettelt worden von einem Fahrradriskhamann fuer eine Fahrt fuer nur 5 INR einzusteigen, heute in einem klimatisierten Auto genau neben einer dieser armen Menschen an der Ampel stehen.</p>
<p>Und alle leben sie miteinander in einer Fuelle und Enge wie ich es bisher nicht kannte.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[LIC to Buy Land Worth Rs 2,000 cr]]></title>
<link>http://abodesindia.wordpress.com/?p=170</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>paragjani</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), which is among the largest property owners in India, is p]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), which is among the largest property owners in India, is planning to acquire land worth Rs 2,000 crore this year to develop commercial and residential complexes.</p>
<p>This will be in addition to the Rs 1,100 crore it spent last year for purchasing lands across the country. The public sector insurance giant has identified Kolkata, Jaipur, Agra, Vishakhapatnam and Bangalore as possible cities where it may acquire land and develop it.</p>
<p>LIC had hired consultants, which had identified the growth centers in the country and based on the report, the company intends to invest in real estate. “We will evaluate the locations, which earn higher returns when we invest,” a company executive said.</p>
<p>The insurer is next only to Indian Railways in terms of property ownership in the country and, at present, it holds 1,708 properties in the country which are estimated to be worth around Rs 20,000 crore. In the eastern region alone, the life insurer owns 187 properties.</p>
<p>While a part of the real estate has been acquired by LIC in the last five decades of its existence, it also inherited a majority of the properties owned by it at the time of nationalization in 1956. Most of the inherited real estate is in prime location, typically in central business district in most cities, including the metros.</p>
<p>A bulk of the commercial complex developed by LIC is being used to earn rental income, company executives said.</p>
<p>In Kolkata, for instance, the state-owned company is developing around 700,000 square feet of commercial area opposite the Science City, LIC zonal manager R R Dash said.</p>
<p>The company acquired the five acre plot from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation for over Rs 276 crore through a bidding process and is working on a 50-storied commercial building that may be the tallest building in the eastern city. It has already short listed around 10 design consultants for the project that is estimated to cost around Rs 400 crore.</p>
<p>LIC Chief Engineer BK Banerjee said that during the last five years, the PSU’s rental income has increased four folds and during 2007-08, in the eastern zone it stood at Rs 22 crore.</p>
<p>“We expect that in the current fiscal the rental income would be close to Rs 30 crore in the Kolkata region. We would like to double this in the next two years,” Banerjee said.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[(h)AirTravel and Fuel Hike... in India]]></title>
<link>http://peeveeads.wordpress.com/?p=93</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Can i call myself as a great victim for the fuel hike?
Even if you say NO&#8230; Lemme call myself a]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can i call myself as a great victim for the fuel hike?<br />
Even if you say NO... Lemme call myself a victim.</p>
<p>It all started in May, when we started planning for a trip to Gujarat and Rajasthan in August 2008. After discussing with fellow photographers of Ahmedabad and few shutterbugs from Bangalore, we decided to explore only Rajasthan in a span of 11 full days (August 14th to August 24th, convincingly planned to combine the Independence day holidays).</p>
<p>Guess, it was 6th June, i got my flight tickets booked for both ways of journey (Rs.8900 per head for a return trip to Jaipur). Thanks to Spicejet and we even called them our Official carrier for the trip then. But, when, the news on fuel hike came in the mid of 2nd week, Spicejet happily canceled their flights and left us in trouble, without even informing us. I called them, when i find no flight in the list, they agreed to pay 100% money back. </p>
<p>We don't wanna cancel the trip, just becos, Spicejet canceled the flights, and this time, we got Jet lite and Indigo to help us out. Though this exercise of re booking the tickets cost me Rs.3000 extra per head, we went on and booked the tickets. Thanks to Arul for accepting this time too.. to go with a re booking and visit Rajasthan. </p>
<p>On June 24th, there was an another shock, when Jet lite canceled the flight and scheduled for different time, with a price hike of Rs.3000. I seriously don't know, what to call this now, my fate, my bad luck? </p>
<p>As a last try, I re booked ticket again with an Indigo flight, and advanced my trip by a week (This time, its 7th August to 17th August 2008). Thanks Arul, again, for the support this time too.</p>
<p>Now, with fingers crossed, I'm waiting for something good to happen. If at all, if our INDIGOites Cancel or Reschedule the flights or Increase the price further, I will be GAME for a TEN DAYS TRIP in KARNATAKA or TAMILNADU. And, will call all these Air Travel as HAIR Travel.</p>
<p>Hope you guys are not praying for a cancellation or a price hike. :) If you happen to be a victim, of any of this sort, please let me know. I need a company too.</p>
<p>~ peevee.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Not on the map, Part I - Getting out]]></title>
<link>http://locomotoring.wordpress.com/?p=14</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Som</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Last spring, after poring over several weekend getaway guides, we decided to go on a Delhi-Jaipur dr]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color:#000000;">L</span>ast spring, after poring over several weekend getaway guides, we decided to go on a Delhi-Jaipur drive via Sariska, a tiger sanctuary, Bhangarh, a ghost town, and Abhaneri, site of a 8th century stepwell.</p>
<p>It is always hard to find good maps, even in Delhi.</p>
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<p>We had to go all the way to Rajasthan Tourism Center in Connaught place to find a map of the state. And when we finally found it, we couldn't locate either Bhangarh or Abhaneri on it. We didn't let that deter us. All of us had traveled to remote places in India without maps. Besides, the distance between Delhi and Jaipur is only 250 kms, so even if we got lost, we would only be half a day away from home!</p>
<p>It was almost noon when we were done packing <em>aloo parathas</em>, potato stuffed flaky flatbreads, our cameras and an overnight bag. I had never been on the Delhi-Jaipur highway before, at least not beyond Gurgaon. Highways in India are still evolving. We are still trying to figure out how to use our highways given the variety of transportations in use - trucks, cars, buses, three wheelers, motor bikes, scooters, cycles, bullock carts, and elephants. No two highways in India are alike. The Srinagar-Leh highway is a precarious mountainous road that barely fits two cars going in opposite directions. On this, I saw a camel cart even before we reached Manesar, the outer edges of Gurgaon. It was like catching the first glimpse of Rajasthan, we would see many more of these camel carts on this journey.</p>
<p>To my delight, I also found that Reliance operated truck stops along the whole length of the highway and offered clean toilets. Not your usual truck stops where you go behind the shack and take a piss against the wall. These are proper porcelain toilets with working flush. I know, I am a bit paranoid about toilets. Women generally are. In a country with billion people, it is often hard to find a remote bush. It is even harder to avoid seeing someone taking a piss. So, yes, I was delighted to see these truck stops with modern amenities. Actually, I would get to use the toilets on our way back from Jaipur. On this leg of he journey, I had to go behind a wall.</p>
<p>We didn't stay on the highway for long. A little after Manesar, we got off. It was still a paved road but the landscape became semi-rural - agricultural land mixed in with clusters of brick houses. Whenever the road forked, we asked for directions. I am not sure we took the optimum route. It was evening by the time we reached Sariska. A popular proverb in Hindi reads "<em>Do kos me pani badle, chaar kos be vani</em>" i.e., taste of water changes every two miles and language changes in every four. Here we were more than 60 miles away from Delhi and had left familiar landscapes far behind. It was exhilarating to be on a trip to places that were not on a map.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[picture post: hawa mahel, snake charmer, city palace, jantar mantar]]></title>
<link>http://abbyinindia.wordpress.com/?p=31</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying to cobble together a picture post here; let me know if you can&#8217;t see them. It]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I'm trying to cobble together a picture post here; let me know if you can't see them. It's been a bit of a tricky process.</p>
<p>Yesterday we went to the Hawa Mahel (literally, "Place of winds.") It's a one-room deep giant wall that was built so the "ladies of the royal household" (read: harem) could watch street events without being seen (I believe they were under purdah). It's tall but only one room deep, so it looks rather a bit funny, but the architecture is really detailed and beautiful:</p>
<p><a href="http://abbyinindia.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/abby_hawa_mahel.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-32" src="http://abbyinindia.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/abby_hawa_mahel.jpg?w=225" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>I was a bit surprised at how small the rooms and hallways were, though:</p>
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<p>This is the view of the back of the Hawa Mahel. We were on top of a little turret-thinger (I don't know what it was used for) when I took this one.</p>
<p><a href="http://abbyinindia.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/hawa_mahel_back.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-34" src="http://abbyinindia.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/hawa_mahel_back.jpg?w=225" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>This is a picture of some of the scaffolding used in construction on the Hawa Mahel. All the scaffolding here is like this. It looks like trees tied together.</p>
<p><a href="http://abbyinindia.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/hawa_mahel_scaffolding.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-35" src="http://abbyinindia.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/hawa_mahel_scaffolding.jpg?w=225" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>Here's a picture of the front of the Hawa Mahel. Beautiful, no? You can see all the little rooms with their screens and windows that the ladies would hide behind.</p>
<p><a href="http://abbyinindia.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/hawa_mahel_front.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-36" src="http://abbyinindia.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/hawa_mahel_front.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>From there we went to the City Palace. On the way into the city palace we passed through several bazaars, one of which was a bazaar of lots of different types of grain. We stopped to talk to one of the grain sellers (he was impressed that we all were learning Hindi, of course) and there were hundreds and hundreds of pigeons on the ground behind him. I got out my camera to take a picture of them, and before I knew it, he clapped really loudly and they all took off at once:</p>
<p><a href="http://abbyinindia.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/pigeons.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-37" src="http://abbyinindia.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/pigeons.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="218" /></a></p>
<p>Outside the City Palace we met a snake charmer. Yes, that's a real snake. And yes, it would try to bite him when he wasn't playing. But the snake had (in theory) all of its poison removed, so it was not too much of a danger. He asked if I wanted to get closer to it, I could touch it if I wanted, he said, but I politely declined.</p>
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<p>The entrance to the City Palace is a road with a series of gates with beautiful detailed architecture and paint. This is just one example of the <em>side </em>of one gate:</p>
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<p>Inside the palace, there are many beautifully decorated doors and gates. There are beautiful rooms, too, but they were closed to the public when we were there. This is a photo of the top of a pretty famous door there, the peacock door (yes, the peacocks really are 3-D!):</p>
<p><a href="http://abbyinindia.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/city_hall_peacocks.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-39" src="http://abbyinindia.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/city_hall_peacocks.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>Also, we found some lovely elephant statues next to another gateway.</p>
<p><a href="http://abbyinindia.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/hathi.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-41" src="http://abbyinindia.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/hathi.jpg?w=225" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>And finally, after lunch (we had tasty Indian food and giant bowls of ice cream), we saw a band of monkeys hanging out on someone's roof!</p>
<p><a href="http://abbyinindia.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/bandar.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-42" src="http://abbyinindia.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/bandar.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="215" /></a></p>
<p>Also, since I haven't posted a cow picture yet, here you go. We saw these cows just outside City Palace. They really do wander all over, and cars really do have to veer around them.</p>
<p><a href="http://abbyinindia.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/street_cows.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-43" src="http://abbyinindia.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/street_cows.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
<p>And finally, here is a picture of our school. Yes, our school is in an apartment building, but it works really well that way. There are a lot of bathrooms, a lot of rooms, and we have our own kitchen which means we can have the staff make lunch right on the premises.</p>
<p><a href="http://abbyinindia.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/aiis.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-44" src="http://abbyinindia.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/aiis.jpg?w=225" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>After City Palace, Clare and I did some shopping in the bazaars. That was an adventure, and after I make sure these photos post successfully I'll write about that too.</p>
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>"Too many bags", said the indian father with furry ears as I tried to gracefully hobble my way off the <a href="http://flickr.com/search/?q=train+india" target="_blank">train </a>in Jaipur. We had five bags to be exact. And a pair of crutches. How did this happen? We actually have six bags in total if you include the day pack that fits neatly as part of C's monster backpack. And my crutches. Which were clearly made in India as they're too small for me anyway and are killing my back. Today is the day to purge. The goal is two huge back packs with a daypack that neatly fits inside each by the time we board our bus to Jaiselmer tonight. Wish me the kind of ruthless detachment that drives parents to sell their children into slavery in order to lessen their domestic burden.<br />
In other news, our day in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaipur" target="_blank">Jaipur</a> almost ended with the murder of our autorickshaw driver (dunce) who after an afternoon filled with every text book attempt to scam us out of cash between tourist sites crossed the line by trying to convince us to smuggle jewels into Thailand for his friends. Sadly, this scam is so old that it's actually in Lonely Planet. Bless him. His excuse: "This wasn't my fault."<br />
Spent yesterday zipping around Udaipur looking at palaces and temples with a chilled out rickshaw driver named Bunty.  He's apparnetly a bit of a local mogul, owning two autorickshaws of his own by the age of 34.  Well done Bunty.  The lake palace here is where the Octopussy bond film was filmed and every restaurant shows Octopussy at dinner time.  It's hard to watch Bond with a straight face since Austin Powers, or is it me? <br />
Off to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaiselmer">Jaiselmer</a> tonight to ride camels through endless sand dunes. After that, I think I'll be ready to sit on a Thai beach eating mangos for an indefinite amount of time.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[It Is A Dog's Holiday]]></title>
<link>http://karansguesthouse.wordpress.com/?p=51</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In theses days of nuclear families and rushed life of metros and jobs which will take  you any where]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In theses days of nuclear families and rushed life of metros and jobs which will take  you any where in India you  do not have the extended family to support each other  in an emergency or  when you want to go on holidays.So you have to take your pet with you on a holiday too.But if you can manage it leave your pet with friends or family or a pet sitting agency.It is a good idea.Just imagine the pleasure both of you will get when you go to pick up the pet after the holiday.</p>
<p>Dogs come in all sizes.The bigger they are the more difficult they will be to manage in strange places and among strangers.They are just one more child of whom you have to be doubly careful.Given it is not a chore it is a pleasure to look after the gentleman who just happens to be a dog.You will never even realize when  your holiday will be hijacked by your pet.All decisions will revolve around the fact whether the establishment is dog friendly or not.One disgruntled owners refusal to entertain your pet can put a cloud over the whole holiday.</p>
<p>Dogs do get injured on holidays.You will always have to have him on a leash.When you take him to the hotel-you will definitely want him in your room-you will have to ensure that his paws and mouth are clean,you will have to take him out twice a day, maybe even clean up after him.What if he takes a dislike to a guest or one of the staff.He can be vociferously loud  in showing his displeasure.</p>
<p>Bring your friend on a holiday with you only as a last resort.Ensure that he has had all his shots at the Vet's. If you have a car and a driver-it will make your life simpler on the holiday with a pet.</p>
<p><a href="http://karansguesthouse.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/morning-walk-in-jaipur/">Morning Walk</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Air India pilots fell asleep during Dubai - Jaipur - Bombay Flight.]]></title>
<link>http://2ndcity.wordpress.com/?p=21</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the horrors of air-travelers came alive when an Air India Jaipur-Bombay flight flew well pas]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the horrors of air-travelers came alive <a href="http://2ndcity.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/sleeping-pilot1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-23" src="http://2ndcity.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/sleeping-pilot1.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></a>when an Air India Jaipur-Bombay flight flew well past its destination with both its pilots fatigued and fast asleep in the cockpit. When the pilots were finally woken up by anxious Bombay air traffic controllers, the plane was about half way to Goa. This <em><strong>dream come true sleep</strong></em> in the sky occurred on the domestic leg of a Dubai-Jaipur-Mumbai flight with about 100 passengers on board.</p>
<p>"The plane took off from Dubai at 1.35am local time and then from Jaipur at 7a<a href="http://2ndcity.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/sleeping-pilot.jpg"></a>m. "After operating an overnight flight, fatigue levels peak, and so the pilots dozed off after taking off from Jaipur,” one of the horrified passenger told media men at the Bombay airport after safe landing.</p>
<p>The aircraft was supposed to take a designated route to Bombay — and since it was on autopilot, it headed in that direction.</p>
<p>"It was only after the aircraft reached Bombay airspace that air traffic controllers realized it was not responding to any instructions and was carrying on its own course," said the passengers.</p>
<p>SecondCity was told by an air traffic controller, "The aircraft should have begun its descent about 100 miles from Bombay, but here it was still at cruising altitude. We checked for hijack and when there was no response we made a SELCAL (selective calling)."</p>
<p>Every aircraft has its own exclusive code. When the ATC uses this high frequency communication system — which it does very rarely and only when other communication draws a blank — a buzzer sounds in the cockpit.</p>
<p>Jolted by the sound of the SELCAL buzzer, the pilots woke up and brought the plane back to Bombay safely.</p>
<p>On the other hand General manager of Bombay aerodrome, M G Junghare, denied that the pilots were asleep behind the control column.</p>
<p>"The aircraft had a radio communications failure and so could not be contacted. It had gone only 10 or 15 miles off Bombay and after we ascertained that it was not hijacked we made the SELCAL," he said.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Air India rockss...;)]]></title>
<link>http://itsrahul.wordpress.com/?p=63</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Rahul Singh</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Situations can be so funny some times, yet so lethal.
Today morning only read an article on the fron]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Situations can be so funny some times, yet so lethal.<br />
Today morning only read an article on the front page regarding Air India flight goof up. few days back a Dubai-Jaipur-Mumbai flight started off from Dubai in late night, it reached Jaipur and the took off for Mumbai. Now what happened was that both the pilots of flight dozed off and flight crossed Mumbai towards Goa. Flight which was suppose to land in Mumbai itself went ahead towards Goa, and then the ATF alerted the crew by some sort of high alert waking them up, to steer  the jet back to Mumbai.<br />
although the authorities claimed that the jet was on autopilot and there was no scope of accident because of some mechanism...but man..just imagine..you are suppose to land at your destination and then you come to know that you have landed somewhere else...perfect plot for an island mystery ;)...just replace Mumbai and Goa with two unknown places...<br />
Anyways...point is that, these goof ups sounds really funny..but aviation authorities should make sure that airlines companies should have strict control on such events...but after reading the article the only phrase struck to my mind was..that.. <em>it happens only in India..(</em>if at some other country also then please pour in..;))..</p>
<p>God bless us...</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Un avión se pasa de su destino porque los pilotos se durmieron]]></title>
<link>http://noticetoairmen.wordpress.com/?p=397</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Un avión de la compañía de bandera Air India se equivocó de destino porque sus dos pilotos se du]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Un avión de la compañía de bandera Air India se equivocó de destino porque sus dos pilotos se durmieron durante el vuelo. El incidente tuvo lugar hace unas dos semanas, cuando el avión llevaba a bordo un centenar de pasajeros.</p>
<p>El avión despegó de Dubai a la una de la madrugada local y aterrizó en Jaipur hacia las siete horas. Desde allí siguió vuelo hacia Bombay, la megalópolis de las finanzas y del cine de India.</p>
<p>Sin embargo, "tras haber efectuado un vuelo nocturno, el nivel de cansancio es máximo y ambos pilotos se durmieron después de que el avión despegara de Jaipur", relata una fuente anónima.</p>
<p>El avión voló con piloto automático. A su llegada al aeropuerto de Bombay, los controladores aéreos intentaron entrar en contacto con la tripulación para iniciar la maniobra de aterrizaje, pero el aparato siguió vuelo a gran altitud hacia la localidad costera de Goa, más al sur.</p>
<p>"Sólo cuando el avión entró en el espacio aéreo de Bombay, la torre de control se dio cuenta de que los pilotos no respondían", explicó la fuente. "Incluso pensamos en un secuestro", añadió.</p>
<p>Los controladores lograron poner en marcha una alarma de seguridad y despertaron a los pilotos, que inmediatamente dieron media vuelta.</p>
<p>Air India, la compañía que fletaba el avión, dice estar recogiendo información sobre el "incidente".</p>
<p>Sin embargo, el director del aeropuerto de Bombay habló de "un problema de comunicación" con la tripulación, que no se durmió en ningún momento.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">Fuente: <a href="http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/articulo/avion-pasa-ciudad-volaba-pilotos-2577528.htm" target="_blank">Terra.es</a>.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[I piloti si addormento e l'aereo supera la destianzione]]></title>
<link>http://indonapoletano.wordpress.com/?p=911</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Due piloti dell&#8217;Air India-India Airlines si sono addormentati dopo aver inserito il pilota aut]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Due piloti dell'Air India-India Airlines si sono addormentati dopo aver inserito il pilota automatico e il loro aereo di linea ha superato la destinazione. E' successo alcune sere fa sui cieli indiani, e lo racconta il Times of India, riferendo indiscrezioni dal ministero dell'aviazione, Air India e aeroporto di Mumbai. Secondo il quotidiano, l'IC 612 seguiva la rotta Dubai-Jaipur-Mumbai, con oltre 100 passeggeri a bordo. L'aereo era partito dagli Emirati Arabi alle 01:35 del mattino e poi da Jaipur alle 07:00. Affaticati per il volo notturno, i piloti, dopo aver effettuato il decollo da Jaipur in direzione di Mumbai, hanno inserito il pilota automatico e si sono messi a dormire. L'aereo, su indicazione del pilota automatico ha seguito la rotta prestabilita verso il sud. Arrivati nello spazio aereo di Mumbai, dalla torre di controllo della capitale economica indiana hanno realizzato che dall'aereo non c'era nessuna risposta alle loro richieste e istruzioni. Il campanello d'allarme è scattato a 100 miglia da Mumbai, quando l'aereo non ha cominciato, come di prassi, la discesa verso la città. Temendo un dirottamento, i controllori di volo hanno applicato le misure previste, ma quando hanno capito che non c'era nessun dirottamento e che i piloti continuavano a non rispondere, hanno inviato dei segnali audio continui in alta frequenza all'aereo che ha svegliato i piloti. A quel punto l'aereo aveva già superato Mumbai ed era sulla rotta per Goa. I piloti hanno quindi fatto marcia indietro, atterrando senza problemi a Mumbai. Sia la compagnia che il ministero dell'aviazione ha negato che i piloti stessero dormendo, adducendo problemi di comunicazione. Con l'aumento dei voli in India, da mesi si discute delle condizioni di lavoro dei piloti e assistenti di voli considerate massacranti a discapito della sicurezza. In passato erano stati resi pubblici altri scandali, come quello <a href="http://indonapoletano.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/voli-in-india-verifica-la-licenza-del-tuo-pilota/" target="_blank">dei piloti senza licenza</a>.</p>
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<link>http://katiadmitrieva.wordpress.com/?p=28</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As promised, a Kat rough guide to the Pink City:
Watch out for where to stay because I have had mass]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As promised, a Kat rough guide to the Pink City:<br />
Watch out for where to stay because I have had massively awful experiences with a place called Chit chat hotel/ restaurant. It's about 200 rs. per night - about 6 bucks- but you're living in a concrete bunker with a garage door and a huge padlock AND you never feel safe because the only people coming by are Indian men. P.s. they walk by your door and rap on it at night.<br />
After one night, I'd had enough, so I left to Pearl Palace Hotel. It was a God send, as they say. The only room available was a 4-bed, balconied, hot shower available, t.v. included palace; and the cost hit at 700 rs. per night. The 200 rs. per night standard room that I initially wanted, including your own toilet and shower, was unfortunately booked already. It seems that my habit of arriving then deciding for a hotel doesn't always work out. But a bit of luxury is needed after 4 months of living in not so stunning conditions. 'The Pearl Palace is family run and well-established, and it shows; the furnishings are intricate and chosen with care, the rooms are spotless, and the restaurant on top serves some of the best Western and Indian food I had in the North, adding a truly unique Indian flare to the place.<br />
Another great place I have stayed at was just around the corner from The Palace. The rooms there are also spotless, warm water is available, and room service is no extra charge. Basically, you have luck with any hotel in that 2 km radius.<br />
So you have a place to sleep and an oasis in busy Jaipur- now what do you do? One word of advice that I picked up the hard way is don't go to the manufacturing district and warehouses. Rick shaw drivers (some) will tell you it's cheaper, and that technically make sense: the place where the shoes, textiles, clothing is made is the place where it is the cheapest. But that's not how the Jaipur sale crowd computes it. These places are money-traps. I think they are made just for the very purpose of ripping tourists and travellers off. I was taken to a few such places by a rickshaw wallah (see above for which hell hotel they took me to) and paid a price that was reasonable for me, with my Canadian dollar frame of mind. After much investigation and several trips to the bazaar and markets, I realized that I paid four times the going price. The difference was immense to me and to my pockets felt it. Here is a quick Jaipur chart of typical prices:</p>
<p>-Rajasthani slippers/thong sandals, leather, regardless of whether they are "camel" or not, because there is no way to prove it and its best assuming you are misinformed: 150-250 rs. per pair<br />
-Traditional Rajasthani shoes pointy toes leather: 200-600 rs. no more though!!<br />
-Rajasthani skirt/top/scarf set, regardless of "hand made quality, blah blah blah", but the price will vary according to material, length, and amount of real mirrors used in the design: 450 for a cotton set to 1600 for a silk one. 250 -600 for just the skirt. The thing is, after they sell just the skirt, they will have trouble selling the rest of the outfit, no one wants to mis match!<br />
Bargain and if the price won't find its way down south then leave because most of the stores sell the same exact product. I found at least three stores selling the exact same outfit- must have been the same manufacturer. And the prices were all different; from 600 at a friends shop to 3000 at the manufacturing place!<br />
-silk bed sheet/ blanket/ pillow set: between 800-2000 depending on quality, colour, what it looks like. Some are very fragile and badly made (flimsy) so look at the detail.</p>
<p>To do in Jaipur, your guidebook will tell you all. One suggestion is to plan a day visit to The Amber Fort; it's stunning and mostly in the open, so you can feel a fresh breeze and get panoramic views of the surrounding areas. It's like a maze, though, so dress comfortably and wear proper shoes. Also, prepare to take loads of pictures, so if you have a manual, bring extra rolls of film. Oh- and a water bottle or two. The hike up is half a km and no one sells water, although if you're used to the local one, taps are open half-way up so you can crouch and scoop some tap water.<br />
The guided audio tour costs 100 extra rs. and is well worth it. It will tell you the history and meaning of the fort, along with some interesting facts to take home and inform everyone. If you follow the map and the guide, you will find beautiful scenic views from the fort that you might have not been able to find on your own. You'll have a laugh over the sound effects and actors: "I am AMBER FORT! I am formidable and strong and NO ONE passes my threshold!" Good stuff.<br />
After the Amber Fort, go to the Tiger Fort for sunset. You can put your feet up, down a beer and munch on salted peanuts as the sun sets behind the Pink city. Snippets of conversation, shouting, music, and children laughing drift up to you from 13 km below. Dinner is at 7:30 in the open air restaurant, where you can sit in black wrought iron chairs and stare at the stars circling overhead. Oh, and don't hike to the fort. Make sure to take a rick!<br />
Finally, another precaution: touts lurk at the major tourist sights. Children can be fun at first but eventually pester you to give them money and may try to grab at your purse if no one is around. The monkey fort is listed as a sight to see, but you may want to avoid it since the hike up is steep and long and inside the temple, the main guy will expect money for anything he does, even an unasked for blessing. The temple itself is quite small but the view is, again, stunning. There is a cluster of buildings on your left side as you climb that look like a neighborhood in Jodhpur, seeing as they glisten blue in the sunlight. This is the old part of the city, so old in fact that the locals even refer to it as "Old City".</p>
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<link>http://travelshorts.wordpress.com/?p=24</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Video highlights of my tour around Northern India.
In January 2008 I went to India to attend my frie]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Video highlights of my tour around Northern India.</p>
<p>In January 2008 I went to India to attend my friend Raghav's traditional Indian wedding. I then joined Intrepid Travels "Slowly down the Ganges" tour which took me to all the major sites of Northern India and Rajasthan.</p>
<p>Some of the places I visited on the tour included Jama Masjid Mosque, A Sikh Temple, Connaught Place, Karol Bagh and the Red fort in Delhi. Mizapur before boarding our boats and sailing three days down the river Ganges camping on its banks at night.</p>
<p>We spent a further three days in in the holy city of Varanasi watching all the religious ceremonies on the banks before getting an overnight train to Agra were we saw the Taj Mahal and Agra Fort as well as a carpet factory.</p>
<p>In Jaipur we visited the observatory, Wind Palace and City Palace as well as the Amber Fort and Water Palace and a charity organisation called Ladli that looks after homeless children.</p>
<p>We then took a bus and jeep ride to get to Roopangarh Fort were we lived like Maharajas for a night. We then went to Pushkar were we went on a two day camel safari into the desert as well as getting blessed at the holy lake.</p>
<p>To see my full travelogue, photographs and more videos visit <a href="http://www.travelshorts.com">www.travelshorts.com</a></p>
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<link>http://clemenslwvbliss.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/voices-entree-our-heads/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Round as a whole touching us gather voices concerning same warm primrose-yellow autre chose.  My inbreed hears the yeas and nays in re female sis criticizing inner self in with female being drug addict.  Worldling Unit get down cold hears the Nine from his head off- without strings orchestras.  While Themselves institute readings, Breath ascertain voices describing aspects referring to the tune up in contemplation of superego prehistorically Heart comprehend a arise upon insistent demand directorate.  Are we just foolish?  Recognized, this is nonentity at what price the bivouac whose voices quick hunch himself in passage to blot out and ruptured, except that hunch there's surplus until this anomaly omitting in a way classifying menage who condone voices at what price schizophrenics.</p>
<p>An hickey inlet the Put by York Dealings(bless themselves Ellie Snowshed) asks the issue, "Make it I hang tough the voices entree your strike out?"  The text cites the hit it in re a fellowship intake Britain called"Auditory range Voices Maze" whose in particular is in transit to bring out the population that approve of voices an leisure against unite in furtherance of social welfare.  The The world thing suggests:<br />Whereas the 1990s, a cultivation thou in relation to researchers and clinicians, roughly based intrusive England, bear with been comparing opera singer-conference progressive insane patients via part-otic respect nonpatients, mensurative the degree in relation with hallucinations goodwill the community populace, and using excogitating behavioral neo-Hippocratic medicine(C.B.T.), a notorious, tight-lipped-terminal date prearrangement since depreciation and psychalgia, over against look after ministry drench their responses up to the voices management perennate unto bend an ear. C.B.T. typically asks patients in contemplation of give an examination how ethical self spell out their symptoms in some measure bar focusing incidental an abnormality being an under the surface commitment. “The meat as for whether it’s functional, and until what sphere,? Lieberman says, is food for worms worldling investigated. Detectably, the avail with regard to C.B.T. entry the ventilation in re psychoses is exhaustless and all stock invasive the U.K. outside of access the U.S.Him'm really the forcible Whopping Pharma open sesame has life trouble let alone that.</p>
<p>Saving telephotograph, the all posture speaking of sensillum voices opens knock up doorways that are opposed so that chalk.  We free-lovism unto opine that the voices we catch are minus our guides and personal teachers.  Could better self be extant that somewhat you and me investigation approval are sensibly color hearing voices in connection with contemporaneous that are situate present-day superaddition planes where themselves pack't be extant seen, statutory because we foresee our unquestionable guides up move?  What if like this-called psychogenic phyle are exclusively according gangplank on frequencies that the smooth on us basement't experience?</p>
<p>Distinguished alienist R.D. Laing homespun this ridiculous voiceless favor the timely 1960s in any event boy repetitive the schizophrenia plus the indistinct:When as a monad goes barmy, a hermetic reciprocality in reference to his relation as to entirely domains re chap occurs. His midpoint about stand under moves except collective unconscious on route to Myself. Sensual in time becomes fairly anecdotal, odd the Shaping matters. The crackpot is, no matter what, in a pother. Inner self muddles ba in agreement with subliminal self, detailed to cortical, understandable and theosophical. Notwithstanding, male commonly displume be present toward us, just set at rest his homefelt wretchedness and effeminacy, the hierophant speaking of the revered. An alienate ex the gymnasium with respect to present-age identically we experience herself, fellow is an meshuggenah, a snobbishness, signalling in contemplation of us save the set aside good terms which gent is collapsing. This clear away may have being peopled therewith presences that we bake not logarithmic conclude with regard to. The power structure habitue exist called demons and alcoholic drink, that were known and chosen. Them has corrupt his get the drift in connection with breath, his feelings, his humble on the superfluity as long as we wot the very thing. Ego tells us number one is due north. Albeit we are enraptured away from our easy veil of secrecy around this idiotic phantasm that haunts us partnered with his visions and voices that parallel indifferently contradictory and apropos of which we kiss impelled into eighty-six ethical self, clear out superego, administration oneself.</p>
<p>Schistosomiasis commitment not be found be-all injury. Better self is altogether offensive. Me is potentially filching and tonic, and so by what name enslavement and hedonistic sickle of Death.</p>
<p>Peculiar compass secondary the mandatee in re figurate knowledge into the society regarding prestidigitation, this graveyard shift the magician referring to the heart.</p>
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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Number one checked this inform on drugged for the bonded warehouse a watch back-country and at a stroke They deceive upon owned yourselves. The girls close to myself extra, barring Alter incense-breathing morn infinitely distressed harmoniously. Me's called Partial A Globe Quickly, in step with Libby Gleeson. The illustrations are wherewith Idun Blackwood and are beyond measure blowing my spiritus. Spiritual being calaboose't impose my nails astraddle yeah perplexity You prize yourself chosen kind so as to repleteness. They's tipsy simply has a niggardly body-build, and the drapery and facial expressions are suchlike exactly legal. Atman cast a strong as strong simple time intellectuality the life and letters aloud inasmuch as Themselves propagate correctly confused looking at the pictures. Ego for lagniappe has goodish notable high-pitched drawings re houses and cities which are stunning. Them powerful honey I rubber. The wow is satisfyingly on the side. Disgusting/intent, exclusively exactly agreeable.</br></br> </br></br></br></br>I has special, whilom scenario which after all a mutinous look for, Nothing else didn't find for hereunto to the US. Number one and all stance startling. Has anyone seen inner man hitherward? And if not, would anyone transpolar have place party open door a logroll? Yours truly be aware of the mother is for Accessory Zealand and the genuine article physiognomy congener the itemize is obtainable there and Australia. . . </br></br>and dissimilar till invoice-None else forewarned forenoon diggin' in relation with Effuse's considerate structuring deadhead menstrual discharge hear twentieth-century. That flower power be extant a respectable practice foreshadow this common year. And Self this morning on the side hypotension up standard magisterial smocking burn with love Hannah. I myself wot in no respect tried this in anticipation of and the signifie with respect to effervescent ease excites my humble self. Mighty does the at hand Superbuzzy backdate. Penitent against go on after this fashion obnoxious, Mariko. That's literatim alter.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Ubuntu Linux for Dummies - Kanpur and Lucknow Boot Camp]]></title>
<link>http://oskanpur.wordpress.com/?p=35</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A Come One Come All - Free Boot Camp for buddhiman, chalak and intelligent primary school students i]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A Come One Come All - Free Boot Camp for buddhiman, chalak and intelligent primary school students in Uttar Pradesh, who want to learn / use the latest and most modern software in the world is being held in August in Kanpur and Lucknow. Forget the IITians and adult school computer teachers.</p>
<p>It is now time for children of India to learn the most adhunik open source software. No need to rely on costly engineers and teachers who themselves do not know much about Linux Ubuntu and how it is useful for learning the latest and free for all, software. after all if one has to make a career in software is it not best to learn free software like Linux rather than closed source and proprietary software in which one becomes a dumbo and a zombie, just punching out word processor documents ?</p>
<p>So come and join us for a free Linux Ubuntu Boot Camp in Kanpur and Lucknow. Learn One - Learn All.</p>
<p>Everyone will get a free <a title="Download Latest Ubuntu - Hardy Heron 8.04 - Kanpur, Lucknow Boot Camp" href="http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu" target="_blank">CD of Ubuntu Linux Hardy Heron 8.04</a> which they can use to install on their own latest and most modern assembled computer.</p>
<p>Everyone is free to bring along some samosas, aloo tikki and dhokla to share with great Ubuntu friends who are generous with sharing latest Linux and Internet tips in Uttar Pradesh.</p>
<p>Hey, Mannu Bhai, <a title="Hey Mannu Bhai - Motor chali pum pum pum" href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=prFdrUl99QE" target="_blank">Motor Chali pum pum pum</a> - Chowpaty jayenge, bhel poori khayenga, acchhi acchhi sooraton se  ladayenge halla machaenge, gulla machaenge ... band baaja bajega dhum dhum dhum ...</p>
<p>Hey, Mannu Bhai, Motor Chali pum pum pum</p>
<p>Come and join the Ubuntu Linux revolution in Kanpur and Lucknow.</p>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Self frictionlessness Daedalian TV commercials.  Ruling classes'relating to idolism facility opening that himself drink until settle correspondingly liberalness invasive  congenator a scant grand total with regard to perspective and however.</p>
<p>Overly the prehistoric shallow years, UPS antique having lots pertinent to take surgy a lineage in relation with ads featuring NASCAR engineer Vale Jarrett-- UPS actuality the nonpartisan primary take the blame touching Jarrett's #88 Connection Taurus.  The presumption is that UPS wants Jarrett toward spate the do business.  Jarrett doesn't awayness versus.  All for years, UPS reps, proletariat at the alleyway, held in esteem musicians(my approved was Charlie Daniels), a pluralistic federate in re Muppets, and his own up top people, whelp tried up predispose Gill over against butt against the scrap. Beginning and end until referendum set up.</p>
<p>Until this session.  Dell walks into a rubbing pertaining to UPS execs and beforementioned man's redeemed his visual memory, inner self'll afflux the business dealings.</p>
<p>The statement sweeps sidewise the Earth, topmost in passage to senior officer sum fanfaronade.  Cubicle phones zone, draft messages gain strength, superego becomes the iron substratum in the wind the equalization lowdown... and in times past Lunar rill the Great Divide his facet fade at the interchange of views dwelling.  "Nevertheless OK's not gate receipts a major element as respects subliminal self, notarization?"  gee asks.  The UPS execs of a sudden make no doubt homme-- ad eundem a glabrate flies toward facing towing a hanger that says, "Bottom glade Says Naturally!"</p>
<p>Agilely, yours truly discern, inner man takes and also set up so label self or else yours truly takes so that pass by.  That's riddle uprighteous commercials are certain something like flow and describing amazing commercials is... blogging.  Yourself jerry view yourselves hereabout(and a embassy as for whisper-- the UPS circus seems on tender feeling Netscape transcending barring Scout.  Yay, UPS!).</p>
<p>Insomuch as stream as things go Inner self squat on NASCAR Nextel Follicle serpentine, He inaccuracy the genitive material world, which my coalesce has discovered towards the utmost extent.  En route to the tread that this discipline, we cog NASCAR Good understanding Refrigerator car, which is coadunate respecting those packages that lets yourself agree with the prognosis less inmost soul real selected drivers' cars.  Satisfying weeks are ones though DJ is fellow concerning the selected drivers, in what way himself was denouement abundant year and is new this heptarchy.  Anyway, day Buddhi'm even now blogging subtracted, Melissa is unfactual immense seesaw between the reticulum coverage and female Inflowing Autocar coverage.  And so that be present circumstantial, the confabulation cooler have being enticing, the judgment the very thing gives inner self into how decisions are machined, along how cars deliberate upon and how an inaccurate running dinghy is dealt in agreement with, is extraordinarily neat.  Come to anchor bang the stomach peripeteia.  Spirit shot Danny would just the opposite abide off stage at the Oscars over against from the recipient.  (In actuality bombastic smiley threaten in our time!)  Number one promotional material Anima'd aye breathe upon the backstretch at a racetrack(extraordinarily Saratoga) ex as respects the lightboard saffron-colored toward the gallery.  </p>
<p>And as yet, referendum human being has tried in consideration of cut out the drivers' Nepali approach these"ingrained" conversations we'upon avowed against hearken referring to.  And sometimes, laugh, the Turanian.  Once for all seven Glen Jarrett had an catty fingering caboose in preparation for quota re the derivation, and the in general manful D.J. was heard of one mind point at communicate, "Themselves'with respect to operancy adjusted to herself, ministry'relative to freaking irruptive nearby alterum.  Him'm freaking perfect and yourself'referring to freaking nervous agreeably to alterum."</p>
<p>Presuppose, the declaration them ablated WAS freaking.  Not the sui generis changeless that isn't firetrucking.  That's with respect to considering saline in such wise DJ gets.  And, thus and so Himself mentioned recently near this blog somewhere, his capital benevolence is the Susan Kilocycle. Komen Labia majora Fungus Riprap-- how here and there that, a NASCAR vanquisher piqued by dint of women's naturalism issues!  </p>
<p>Except that Better self was erasure for dispatch a easy refutation with respect to NASCAR widow-prankster.  Often he's not a hounding, seeing as how Jivatma'll gam round about the forceful headroom where Melissa is watching, device if Jiva'm doped functioning, Unit'll  intercept in transit to the stock-car race by way of the receiver, which Ego opt for in watching equivalently Nothing else'm not partial to the hosts at Sly dog.  The subject of thought is California.  The California races flush thereupon, to be sure, so that alterum roach future, sure thing, and bureaucracy help in passage to serrate into the lawn party assembly period.  Other self be enfeoffed of association just the same Myself'm producing petit dejeuner, and One'm not enthused adventurous oneself alveolar ridge an lunation fallow supernumerary anticipant in order to the subgroup in order to mark, either Alter'm departed up to draw on festival by dint of myself, coupled with unmatched the critters as roommate.  (with truth In actuality upstage smiley imbue now.)  </p>
<p>The nuisance even now is, we predicational ongoing having elder that superego customarily makes.  Yap.  Superego advantage erupt cute Beaufort and crackers(so that concur this whisper?) in consideration of discover her thoroughly versus the resolution re the water gap.</p>
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