Caste Names for Hire
One of the most common sights on the roads of India are trucks and buses roaring by with a name displayed on top of their cab or inside the windshield. These names, signifying the owner [...]
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A Stay at The Solitaire Hotel, Bangalore
Affordable luxury hotels have been popping up around India for years now, and The Solitaire fits nicely into this category. Modern, sleek & bustling with locals and business travelers, this is the place to find [...]
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READ: Street Food of India
Limiting oneself to just 50 of the greatest Indian snacks is a feat in itself. Add to it rich, colorfully detailed photos of individual snacks direct from the streets of various cities across India, and [...]
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Hinduism 101: Shiva
Shiva literally means “auspiciousness, welfare”. He is the third god of the Hindu Triad and is the destroyer of all evil. He represents darkness (tamas), and is said to be the ‘angry god’. However, according [...]
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Brands of India: TATA
Like apple pie is iconic to the USA, TATA Group is a company so firmly entrenched in India, few others compare to it’s size. In total, there are 28 enterprises, which feed into the 8 major companies under the TATA umbrella. Annual sales for the 2008-09 business year topped $70 Billion, 65% outside of India, with worldwide employment of more than 357,000 people.
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A Visit to Amter Palace, Himachal Pradesh
No pick-up guide, no refreshment stall and definitely no gift shop awaits visitors to Amter Palace. Stuck somewhere between Sujanpur Tira and Nadaun, Himachal Pradesh, the best days of this palace are sadly, long gone. [...]
