Travelogue "To travel is to take a journey into yourself".. and my experience with travelling has led me to believe in this quote.... tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14431171 2005-09-21T15:33:07Z Blogger
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 false Merchant 2006-01-22T09:46:00-05:00 2006-01-22T14:53:57Z 2006-01-22T14:53:57Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14431171.post-113794163725425012 The Golden Triangle in the East The Planning: Even before I returned to India, my sister had threatened me that she would boycott any vacation within the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat.Mumbai city is the capital of Maharashtra State and most of my maternal relatives stay in Gujarat State. To my sister, going to any of these two places would be the same as moving from the living room to the kitchen.When I returned to Mumbai, false Merchant 2005-07-15T17:49:00-04:00 2005-11-23T20:55:53Z 2005-07-15T21:50:27Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14431171.post-112146422730149768 The Padmanabham Temple - The Story of Creation. I visited the temple at 5:30 am in the morning. It is a custom for the men to enter the temple bare-chested with a sarong around your waist. As I manuevered the dark corridors of the temple I realised it was time for the morning prayers. Infinite oil lamps lit the black stone walls of the temple and a golden glow seemed to surround everything. The colors of the flowers hit the eye as they stood false Merchant 2005-07-12T16:41:00-04:00 2005-09-16T22:38:37Z 2005-07-12T20:41:50Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14431171.post-112120091026532434 God's Own Country - Kerala, India Now I had made this trip in February 2004 which is more than a year and a half ago. But the memories are still fresh and I have posted the pictures in the photo gallery so it deserves a mention here.. It was a 14 day business trip where I was posted to Thiruvananthapuram (hope I spelled that right) as a faculty at the TCS training center. The moment I happend to inform the members of my theatre false