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Coconut trees are essential to the traditional lifestyle and livelihood of the people of Kerala, as you will see when you travel on Kerala tours with Kerala Backwater. Coconuts dried for oil

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This was my fourth entry for the LiveJournal contest. *************************************************************************** MONDAY 'On the first night of my sentence in HMP Belmarsh a

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Yosemite – Day 2 We woke up bleary-eyed quite early the next morning because the cold that had pervaded our ‘unheated’ tent throughout the night had made sound sleep impossible. We had

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Yosemite Valley – Day 1 I said in the Introduction that now we are in the Information Age and so can get both verbal as well as visual information about Yosemite on the Net. Thank the Lord

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One of my favourite Carnatic Songs is "Ithuthano Thillai Sthalam...." Ithuthano Thillai Sthalam by Gopalakrishna Bharathi and the concluding sentence is a mindboggling

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Half a day at Vadodara When I started to write about our recent trip to Vadodara, I found to my delight that the venerable ‘Vatvriksha’ became a mundane ‘Banyan’ tree in English

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Half a day at Vadodara When I started to write about our recent trip to Vadodara, I found to my delight that the venerable ‘Vatvriksha’ became a mundane ‘Banyan’ tree in English

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 I have moved to a different blogsite and you can follow me at http://raobharata.wordpress.com. You can read this particular blogpost at

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Coinciding with the Dushera vacation, we planned to visit the temple town of Bhadrachalam. We kept aside oneday for the launch ride on the Godavari river. The launch starts from Shri Ramagiri which is

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The Shore Temple Exactly one year after the tsunami of 26th December 2004, we found ourselves gazing at the seas off Mahabalipuram and imagining the havoc the tsunami had wrought on that open

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