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Jan 21st, 2005, 19:53
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| Maha Guru Member  Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: nasik, maharastra
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Apr 15th, 2005, 15:31
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| Discombobulated Elsewherean!  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Zimbabwe
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| Oh Beach, what an amazing description of India. I was just sussing out threads on "It happens only in India" and of course the 'The India Confusion' word said it all. It's definitely a MUST read for everyone who's been or is planning to go. I've copied it to share with desi friends, and they'll be as 'homesick' as I was (am) when they read it. You certainly do have a gift with words. Absolutely brilliant!!! 
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Apr 15th, 2005, 16:42
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| That's the first time I've ever heard anyone equate Disneyland with India, two of my very favourite places on the planet.  (I'm former cast, meaning I used to work for the Mouse.) |
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Apr 15th, 2005, 16:43
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| Maha Guru Member  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Bangalore
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| Beach Saab, Excellent post. |
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Apr 15th, 2005, 16:52
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| This is just a cameo appearance  Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Chennai, India
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| There is no end to the treasures on IndiaMike. Threads not read before that suddenly reappear. Beach, you began with a fantastic and beautiful post. Subsequent posts from you and other increased the depth and richness of this thread. I've been living here for 3 months, and, subject to visa-necessary etc returns to UK, intend to stay. But IndiaMike is always demonstrating to me how little I know about India. Hats off and a heart-fealt Thank You to those of you who such depth of knowledge and feeling and experience ---and share it here  |
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Apr 15th, 2005, 22:29
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| Lost in translation Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: India !
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|  unity in diversity?... no no no..it's chaos with character. India just gets under your skin even before you know it..., the good news is...it feels great.  |
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Apr 16th, 2005, 12:02
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| barefeet indian  Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: India
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| It definitelt does! one of the best posts i've read in a long time. now i regret missing you in hampi all the more! Excellent! |
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Apr 17th, 2005, 23:17
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| Lost in translation Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: India !
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| Listen to a small audio documentry on someone re visiting india after 40 years http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4603562 (thanks Byronic to give a link to the NPR (National Public Radio) site) |
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Apr 26th, 2005, 07:13
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| brother my cup is empty member  Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: yörp
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| What an excellent post Beach. At the risk of sounding stupid or ignorant, I take it you're an Indian living in India right? Just curious how you could sum up the meet-India experience more eloquently than many a seasoned traveller would. Anyway you've surely managed! Of the many things that I might comment on this one really struck me Quote:
What can I say, thanks for a great post!
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Apr 27th, 2005, 01:27
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: England
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| Oh, beach - what a truly amazing post. Wish I'd read it before I went to India for the first time ....... but you have certainly got inside my mind and articulated my own thoughts. Thanks, from the bottom of my heart, it's amazing. I'm head over heels in love with India now, so am completely immune to any 'warning's' - this is one holiday romance that will live and live ...... |
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Apr 27th, 2005, 02:16
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| a pain in the asana  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: the India inside my heart
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| I will be in Chennai this September. The only people I know who have gone to India more than once are other yoga instructors who go to study. This will be my first trip overseas, anywhere, traveling solo at the fabulous age of 51. Half of my friends think I will "go native", the other half think I am never coming back. Everyone has told me that adjusting to India won't be hard, it's re-adjusting to the US (or even just re-adjusting to a western society like Germany when I land there on the way home) that will be difficult. Everyone has told me that upon my return I will be struck at how antiseptic western society is, how "large" people are (to put it politely), and knowing me, they tell I will want to turn around and get on the next plane back to India. I know a man (American) who lived in India 4 times during the '70s -- he is 60 now, and all he wants to do is return to India, and die there, and have his ashes thrown in the Ganges. So even tho I have not been there yet, I already know that I will go back again and again.
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Apr 27th, 2005, 18:37
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| Lost in translation Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: India !
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| Thanks everyone for the comments… I’m happy to hear some applaud when someone kick this thread up at times (though like India this thread too has once gone through the trauma of a ‘partition’ ) |
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May 26th, 2005, 23:57
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| Member.....  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: In front of a PC, pretending to be very busy
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 | Beach Rules Beach, This is just an appreciation of how you became the 'longest member' and I thought I HAD to put it back in the homepage. Now I know why a close friend, 47, an Italian, wants to die in Hampi. He gave up his job in Italy to come and stay here, motorcycling around the countryside! Cheers to all of you! Now, I'm missing my roots! Assam!!!!
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Jun 7th, 2005, 10:58
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| curious soul  Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: california
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| beach... wow ! what a post !! Quote:
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Jun 7th, 2005, 11:25
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| Maha Guru Member  Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Delhi
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| I wonder, why mods dont make this thread 'sticky'. This thread is one of the reason, a lot of members who stumbled on this site, thought of becoming a permanent member. |
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