
Saran Shanmugam
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Traveler, entrepreneur, advocate of child adoptions,nutrition startup, nutrition analytics, fitness wannabe, History - Blog at http://randomvoyager.
North Carolina, USA
Joined November 2010
My day by day travel experience driving on the Pamir highway in Tajikistan & Wakhan corridor in Tajikistan hugging the Afghanistan border. Pamir Highway was part of the old silk road & connects Afghanistan,Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan & Tajikistan https://t.co/kUzRm4Aaa7
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@priyankagandhi @narendramodi It happened inside the Afghan embassy, which is technically Afghanistan, so their laws prevail. If you are so ignorant then we can't do anything.
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I tend to ignore all these religious supremacy/religious entitled nutjobs in X. The ground reality is different. Though I have lived in the conservative belt of the US. No one bothers you with the religion.
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Leaving out politics. Seeing travelers, including those from India, have started to travel to Afghanistan. And a shorts where the Taliban checkpost in Afghanistan on knowing the biker is from India reminds him of the India- Afghanistan friendship and sends him away without
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A Nobel peace prize for trying but delivering nothing. Venezuela is still a dictatorship.
BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to
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But there are some including myself who will pay a premium or ignore irritants like Taxi mafia just for its vibe. This vibe is unique to Goa unavailable elsewhere.
The situation for other tourist places in India will be the same in the coming years. Goa is just a start. The places in India which will continue to thrive will be those with unique attractions/monuments e.g. Jaipur, Hampi. India has gotten expensive over the years as it
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The situation for other tourist places in India will be the same in the coming years. Goa is just a start. The places in India which will continue to thrive will be those with unique attractions/monuments e.g. Jaipur, Hampi. India has gotten expensive over the years as it
Goa's tourism is de*d and its revival is much needed. From 9.37 lakh foreign tourists in 2019 to only 4.67 lakh tourists in 2023. It has become too expensive for a common traveller to visit Goa. The opening of other avenues in Southeast Asia, like Vietnam and Indonesia,has
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Nusa Islands of Bali - Nusa Lembongan, Nusa Ceningan, and Nusa Penida (pic 1) will celebrate Nyepi Laut aka Nyepi Segara or "Sea Silence," a sacred Balinese Hindu ritual on Tuesday, October 7. All sea-related activities and marine transportation are stopped for one day (24 hrs)
On the eve of Nyepi, Balinese New Year on March 11th 2024, Ogoh Ogoh will be paraded all over Bali. Per Bali Hindu dharma,Bhuta-Kala means (Bhuta: eternal energy,Kala: eternal time).In the form of Ogoh Ogoh,Bhuta Kala is represented as giant figures
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Other nations take traditional liquor let's make it's a GI tagged brand. Gandhian India : let's remove traditional low processed liquor and give people IMFL.
This is the landscape one would see in many places in Tamilnadu with palm trees. (I saw the same landscape in Jaffna,Srilanka) . And it brings in a lament in me. The tree climbers/farmers can benefit immensely through these palm trees via Toddy extraction. Congress who was
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The effect of promoting IMFL is just getting visible The opening of Dialysis centres even at villages . The long term effect is unimaginable .
This is the landscape one would see in many places in Tamilnadu with palm trees. (I saw the same landscape in Jaffna,Srilanka) . And it brings in a lament in me. The tree climbers/farmers can benefit immensely through these palm trees via Toddy extraction. Congress who was
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This is the landscape one would see in many places in Tamilnadu with palm trees. (I saw the same landscape in Jaffna,Srilanka) . And it brings in a lament in me. The tree climbers/farmers can benefit immensely through these palm trees via Toddy extraction. Congress who was
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Gill deserves the test captaincy. I doubt he deserves the one day team captaincy. And even a place in the T20 team.
Gill and Washington Sundar were 2 of the Youngsters who contributed to the thrilling Gabba 2021 test win. Felt since then, they should be given a long rope as they proved their mettle in a big match event. Gill is proving it. Sundar is starting to.
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This Murthy of the old man (called Batara would mean Siva typically) is at the Pura Siwa temple in Tabanan, Bali.
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Aral Sea in Central Asia is recovering from the man made disaster of 1960s - Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation has reported a record increase in the volume of water in the Northern Aral Sea, exceeding national and international expectations.
Stubble burning is to South Asia (affects India & Pakistan) what Aral sea desertification is to Central Asia - Nan made disasters. Around 1960, Soviet Union to increase land for cultivation of white gold, cotton, started diverting waters from 2 rivers, Amu Darya & Syr Darya.
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Nusa Islands of Bali - Nusa Lembongan, Nusa Ceningan, and Nusa Penida (pic 1) will celebrate Nyepi Laut aka Nyepi Segara or "Sea Silence," a sacred Balinese Hindu ritual on Tuesday, October 7. All sea-related activities and marine transportation are stopped for one day (24 hrs)
On the eve of Nyepi, Balinese New Year on March 11th 2024, Ogoh Ogoh will be paraded all over Bali. Per Bali Hindu dharma,Bhuta-Kala means (Bhuta: eternal energy,Kala: eternal time).In the form of Ogoh Ogoh,Bhuta Kala is represented as giant figures
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