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71Bike Tour - Visa and other Challenges, and the Lucky Breaks
I have no idea how tough or easy it is to get a visa to USA or any country in Europe NOW. When I undertook my Bicycle Tour, challenges came in various shapes and sizes. Poor India, Rich India For a start,...
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68A Different Face of a Metro - Slice of Chennai
We Hubbers surely have a lot of things in common - a fact that explains the activity, the comments and the fan clubs. As I was thinking of the backgrounds of us Hubbers and the things that we write about, a...
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59The Wonderful Women Novelists
Years ago, I discovered that my fiction reading consisted largely of novels by men. Well, Agatha Christie has always been my favourite, but she was one among the few exceptions. I decided to right the...
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63Here’s to Original Quotes, Cheers!
Reading a fellow hubber’s (St James) compilation of quotes, I said to myself why not pen some original ones and also ask others to have a shot at it. After all, it is through expressing ourselves on...
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71Bike Tour in Europe - Riding on Luck from Chennai to Copenhagen
Here's another interesting incident during my Bike Tour - an incident that had its origin in Chennai, the city of my residence. When I was at the Chennai Central Railway Station to book my ticket to Mumbai to...
4 comments65Moral Courage - An Attainable Absolute
The little girl gently frees her delicate fingers to reveal a tiny seashell in her palm. She smiles at her companion, a little boy, who readily matches her gesture and shows her his treasure, a colourful...
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69On a Bike Across Europe For Peace
It's about 26 years since I went on a Bicycle Tour of Europe, with my friend Aisola Ravi Shankar. This tour demanded hectic, wide-ranging preparations for about a year and culminated in a 9-month-long...
7 comments61Say what you like, or better write it
Ludwig Wittgenstein, the philosopher, said: Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, dar
1 comment58Pen-Dependent - a Poem
As I put the pen back to paper, it sucked in all that's written, in an angry, reproachful inhalation, and twiddled between my fingers, demanding manumission. Run me along, it tells me, or leave me alone....
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67Slice Of Chennai - Tailor Tale
A little further down the street, about 20 metres from where the Iron Men are located, the Husband-and-Wife Tailor Duo have their shop. They have been at this location for 23 years now. Working from about 7...
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