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On that tingling feeling



For a few days I’ve been hiding a secret. One that’s been bubbling and frothing away in the pit of my stomach – erupting every once in a while in a gleeful little giggle. For someone who supposedly a ‘travel writer’ that is probably very uncool reaction, but I can’t help being super excited.

I’m going to Switzerland! It’s going to be my first ever junket, when I travel with a whole bunch of other journos and follow a fixed itinerary, and it’ll be fun how I adapt to that. I like pretend I’m a complete maverick when I’m traveling, doing whatever whim strikes me at the moment, so this should be interesting.

But, more importantly, I’m going to be setting foot on European soil after 15 years. The first time was when I was 11, and my father took the family to Italy for a month. I was quite useless little traveler then, I think. I ate nothing of the amazing Italian cuisine or the vast quantities of sea food available. If memory serves correctly, which it unfortunately does, I think I survived on a diet of magherita pizzas and bananas. The day we came back, I sat in the verandah and tucked into paranthas my neighbour had made while my parents were still unlocking the house.

Of course it’s been a long time since then. And from being the person who found the one sardarji who made paranthas in the largest open-air seafood market in Singapore, I’ve now become the person who will experiment with all sorts of food. (Remember my tales of the hotpot in China?)

Even so, there are many things I’m still puzzling my mind over. How much money to carry with me, if withdrawing on my card from an ATM there will mean too many extra charges, and if I should buy my train pass in advance.

So if any of you have any cracking bits of advise for me, do tell. And I promise to come back with a bagful of interesting stories for you.

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Posted by Neha Dara on Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 12:45 am 
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  • David

    Its a misleading news, how can one compare Modi with leader of corrupt, scandlous, Scamster, corrupt, Looter, Traitor govt.

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  • kanishka

    Another stark difference is not having two+ centers of power for an elected head of the state who has taken the oath of office and one Super PM without any accountability and press conferences/interviews.

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  • KANISHKA

    MODI – NAA MEIN KHATAA HOON NAA KHANE DOONGA

    MMS – LOOTO KHAO BACHE TAU SWISS BANK BHARAO

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  • Poor Indian

    Notice the new trend of Paid news – Since Rahul baba is shit scared of fighting against Modi -Papu now wants to rule using Shameless MMS as dummy with no accountability as that that way he can protect his Billions of loot and now HT is paid to start a new spin to compare Modi with MMS and suggest both are same.

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  • 9Para

    This is not a surprising conclusion. Regardless of the political party that is in power, certain factors like the bureaucracy, and the corporations that actually run the country remains essentially unaffected. Since it is in their (and the politicos) best interest to ensure maximum profitable exploitation of resources, questions like ethics, inclusive growth, and societal growth don’t really come into the picture, except as superficial hogwash designed to dupe the voting masses come election time. This fact is one of the core, unavoidable problems with Indian democracy as it now stands. No one is power is interested in changing a repressive and exploitative status quo because it goes against their own beneficial interest. Communalism, vote-bank politics, issues of caste, etc. are all incorporated into political discourse to disguise this essential fact that everyone in power wants their share of the enormous pie that is India and its natural, economic, and man-power resources. The relationship between India’s people and its governing classes needs to be reoriented fundamentally. A system reset, if you will.

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  • GK

    That is … if you assume… Manmohan has a model :)

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  • KANISHKA

    @Author, ” Modi had suggested in Kolkata earlier this week that Bihar should take leaf from Gujarat’s development.”

    Did you miss the rest of MODI speech where he explained that models differ from one DISTRICT to next and MODIFICATION (not NAMO-fication) would be required for Gujarat Model of develop to meet the local conditions?

    Is Bihar from other planet? 33% share of each agriculture, Industry and Service has maximum flexibility to sustain natural calamities such as draughts becasue the state has already developed its own revenue based on indusrty and service sector. Gujarat has its own tax and non-tax revenue around Re 66,000 Crores which are three times larger than Bihar thus Gujarat does not have to go on begging spree every now and then. Priorities can be changed depending on situation as long you have enough funds of your own and share from center. Besides, industrian states contribute huge sums to the central kitty which agriculture base states don’t. The ganga belt (UP, BIHAR AND WB) is and will remain a drag on the growth rate of India unless India adopts “TWO-CHILDREN FAMILY” policy fo reduce the rate of population growth. UP, BIHAR and WB combined are around 400 million and growth cannot match to feed new mouths every year.

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  • Chaddi Utaro Abhiyan

    And we would expect our next PM Mr Narendra Modi to not run away from
    Interviews when faced with hostile questioning as it happened in the
    past. Chaddis supporting him say that the matter is sub-judice and hence
    any ’sane’ Chief Minister would refrain from speaking about it. For
    these Chaddis, a basic refresher course in English language is being
    provided – FREE of cost!!!

    And here goes the brilliant interview where Mr. Modi shows his oratory and management skills :
    http(colon)//www(dot)youtube(dot)com/watch?v=TP1QFcvIg9c .

    I hope he is more prepared the next time, once he assumes office and
    hopefully gets a visa to the US. If the New York times turns hostile,
    please ask him to keep calm and bazinga!!

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    Pappu_FAIL_ho_Gaya1 Reply:
    April 14th, 2013 at 6:33 pm

    i THINK YOU ARE A NAUKER paid by the Pappu relief Fund sponsored by Congress loot money. Please go clean diapers of your failed Pappu rather than give these puerile comments being paid at 25 paisa a comment by Congress

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  • Raghav

    All I have to say is that Hindustan Times is owned by Shobhana Bhartia – a Congress MP. Enough said.

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  • krishna reddy

    MMS since his school days has only one strategy. Turn in your answer paper blank. Every one fills it the way he wants and feels you are a genius. He is like a blank paper used as a tissue paper by the Madam.

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  • Toriasmith

    Both of them are motive same for the Indian economy.They are always encouraged the Large scale industry to develop in the Indian economy.

    http://www.prlog.org/12113774-guitar-center-promo-code-save-up-to-10-off-snap-shortly.html

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