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Month: August 2008

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August 31, 2008 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, India

No internet. It’s been a while since I’ve had no internet in my daily life.  There are times when I want to know something – anything – and I cannot[…]

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Warning: Graphic Sickness

August 26, 2008 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, India

The day of heroic effort and eventual comfort. So, we woke up at about 8am and left the hotel almost three hours after we were supposed to be out. The[…]

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Allahabad Sucks

August 25, 2008 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, India

Wow. Allahabad sucks. This is the first town in India that I have honestly just not liked. Strange. We arrived in town at 5am. A bit disoriented (duh), we chose[…]

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Krishna’s Birthday in Fatehpur Sikri

August 24, 2008 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, India

After our long, long walks of yesterday, we arranged a taxi to take us the 30km to Fatehpur Sikri. The short version of the story goes like this: Emperor Akbar[…]

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The Emperor Imprisoned

August 23, 2008 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, India

The smell of spicy-sweet incense, the heat that soaks beyond bone marrow into DNA, the smooth-sharp crack of HindiGujaratiMarathiMalayalamWhoKnowsWhat over the constant background of horns. These combine to hold me[…]

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A Short One

August 23, 2008 Dena India

More of an prod to get you to the Slideshow link than anything else.  We got a ton of great pictures of the Taj Mahal and the Agra Fort today[…]

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Uncivilized India

August 22, 2008 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, India

So far, pretty much everything I’ve had to say about India has been easy to categorize as praise.  It’s not perfect, though.  In one way in particular… Uncivilized India is[…]

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The Beautiful, The Cynical and the Spectacle

August 22, 2008 James India, James' Blog

(The Beautiful) The smell of India, wow! I cannot accurately explain how wonderful the smells of India are simply because of my lack of descriptive prowess and the fact that[…]

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Sikhs Do More Than Feed People

August 19, 2008 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, India

Arriving in Delhi after 18 hours on the Rajdhani Express, James and I donned our packs and stumbled off the train. We both looked left, looked right, and followed the[…]

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Stained-Glass Butterflies and Men with Guns

August 17, 2008 Dena Dena's Blog Posts, India

Violence. Authority. I imagine that the police in India are aiming for the latter, but I can’t help but see the former. Here’s one of the little comparisons that I’ve[…]

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