Sunday, December 12, 2010

Books

Lonely planet guide (there are so many guide books... this is just one of them.  Unsure which is best)
From Here to Nirvana, guidebook of Ashrams in India
Wanderlust and Lipstick, for Women Traveling in India


return to India post

Helpful Websites for Traveling to India

The Lonely Planet, India site
IndiaMike.com, a site for India travel discussions, info, etc.
wanderlust and lipstick (for women traveling)
makemytrip.com, a site for booking train, bus, and air travel within India
iguide, an interactive travel guide, really well organized and easy to navigate

Vaccines: CDC website

An India visa can be obtained through these folks: Travisa

return to India posting

Monday, December 6, 2010

You Choose

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
-Gandhi


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“It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.”
-Emily Dickinson











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Furrywhirled..........

"Consciousness is the slash in between those oppositions"
-Sarah





"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."
-Gandhi

















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Sunday, December 5, 2010

“I used to say: ''there is a God-shaped hole in me.'' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.”
-Salman Rushdie






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Her own grief grieved her.
-Arundhadi Roy, from The God of Small Things, p. 7













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The beach was barren and dull to play on alone; the only neighbors who stayed on past Labor Day, a young married couple, had no children, and Eliot no longer found it interesting to gather broken mussel shells in his bucket, or to stroke the seaweed, strewn like strips of emerald lasagna on the sand.
-Lahiri, 114 (image)







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