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Travel To The Blissful Darjeeling

By Y.Modini: There is nothing more blissful than getting lost in streets and life of the city of Darjeeling, the land of celestial thunderbolt, as its known in north-east India. It’s like being in a dream, walking through the winding roads and woods, looking at

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Senior General Than Shwe’s Visit: Bridging the India-Mayanmar Gap

By Sampa Kundu: Senior General Than Shwe’s 5-days official visit to India ended on Thursday, July 29, 2010. He came to India with a number of other top level delegates on a goodwill visit and both the governments signed five documents including the Treaty on

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Arunanchal Pradesh– The Rugged Bounty of Nature

Sanjukta Majumder: NOTE: PHOTO GALLERY AT THE END OF THE ARTICLE. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- And I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.” - Robert Frost These last lines of the famous poetry, ‘The

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SIKKIM- The Untouched Beauty

Apoorva Chawla: The tiny thumb shaped state nestled in the Himalayas and under the protective shadow of its guardian deity, Mount Khangchendzonga, the third highest peak in the world, is usually overlooked by tourists as a travel destination, and this is the reason its beauty

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Peoples’ Participation in the Paradise Unexplored

Sampa Kundu: The Northeastern region of India is of immense scenic beauty. The seven sisters of the region are considered to the ‘paradise unexplored’ of India. Not only that, it has a favorable climatic condition to produce spices, fruits, vegetables, flowers and herbs. Moreover, out

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Go Guwahati!

Laba Deka: Guwahati, the capital of Assam, located at the bank of the Brahamputra River. It is treated as the gateway of northeast India and the most popular tourist destinations in northeast India. The erstwhile Pragjyotishpur (the City of Eastern Light), Guwahati derived its name

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Sikkim: A Must Visit Paradise

Parul Sabherwal: I got an opportunity to visit this natural paradise last year along with my family and few of our friends. During the planning stage, whenever we went to anybody, be it a family member of a friend, and discussed our plan, everybody had

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Assam, A Gateway to North East India

Laba Deka: Assam is the gateway to North-East India, dominated by rivers like Brahamputra and Barak. A large part of Assam is situated in the narrow valley that these rivers have created over the period of time. Assam, also described as the Shangrila in the

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A Different Perspective: Racism or Identification?

Navjeet Singh SandhuThis is in response to the series that appeared in The Hindustan Times last week named - Reverse Racism. After going through most of the articles regarding the series, make note - most of , I was in a dubious situation regarding the